Gummy candy, as the name suggests, is a soft and elastic candy. Gummy candy is also called gel candy. Gummy candy is based on one or more hydrophilic gelling agents, white sugar, and starch syrup as the main material. After heating Melt to a certain concentration, under certain conditions, it will form a soft gel-like candy with higher water content. So what are gummy worms made out of? Let’s take a look at it together.

The composition of soft candies are mainly sugars and colloids. Due to the different types and properties of soft candies, the ratio of these two components is different. Sugar determines the taste of soft candy. The main feature of soft candy is that it contains different kinds of colloids, which make the sugar body have gel properties, so it is also called gel candy. Where did the jelly come from? This mainly depends on five substances: agar, alginate, gelatin, starch, carrageenan and pectin. Here is a brief introduction to the different types of soft sweets:

1.Starch

The starches in nature are composed of straight chains and branched chains. Amylose gel is good and amylopectin has high viscosity, but natural starch has defects. Modification treatments such as oxidation and acid hydrolysis of starch can not only improve the original properties of starch, such as increase its gel strength, reduce its viscosity, improve its water solubility and fluidity, but also give it new functional properties.
Features: more waxy and sticky, it can reduce product cost, improve taste and improve thermal stability of gelatin soft candies.

2.Gelatin
Gelatin is a natural protein extracted from connective tissues of animals. It is also a hydrophilic colloid. It can melt into a solution in hot water and form a transparent gel when cooled. The functional properties of gelatin are widely used in food, such as gelatinization, thickening, stabilization, emulsification, adhesion, film formation and aeration, etc., and protein is also a very necessary nutrient ingredient, so gelatin is a kind of high value The versatility of raw materials.
Features: The made jelly has large elasticity, good chewiness, poor thermal stability, and melts easily at room temperature.

3.Agar, carrageenan
Agar and carrageenan are both hydrophilic polysaccharides extracted from seaweeds; agar is algae extracted from marine red algae plants such as Gelidium and Gracilaria, and carrageenan is derived from carrageenan, stag carrageenan, etc. Polysaccharide gels extracted from red algae plants. They can all be dissolved in hot water and condense into a transparent gel when cooled. However, after carrageenan is dissolved in water, the viscosity is greater than that of agar, and the strength of the formed gel is not as good as agar, but the transparency is higher.
Features: solid and brittle, good transparency and elasticity, low coagulability, poor acid resistance.

4.Pectin

ethoxy group to form methoxy fruit. glue.
Features: A higher sugar content and a lower pH are needed to coagulate, that is, the sweet and sour soft candy should be pectin.

Due to the different types of soft candies, there are certain differences in their composition, but the main ingredients are similar. Nowadays, candy processing factories generally use gummy machines to process various candies. This production line is an advanced continuous equipment that can produce gelatin (pectin or carrageenan) jelly in different sizes and shapes (popular gummy bears, cola bears, fruit shapes, letter shapes, etc.). You can also produce hard candies, lollipops, etc. by changing molds.

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