Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Apr. 2013
The candy it is one of the most popular and consumed sweets in the world. It consists of a preparation sugar based, which is achieved from precisely the cooking the sugars used. Once the preparation cools, it hardens. It is also common for candies to be added flavors and flavorings to make them more tempting and tasty.
On the other hand, there are candies without added sugar and with the presence of sweeteners. This variety is produced for those who cannot consume sugars because they are fattening or because they want to take care of their teeth.
Although, of course, the presence that sweets have today did not exist even remotely thousands of years ago, it should be noted that in ancient times the demand from food sweet and light, similes to candies, which were intended to give them Energy to men on the long journeys they used to undertake. Being ginger, lactose, honey and licorice, some of the most used substances.
In the middle of the 19th century, USA, started the
production to great scale of candies. In the industrial production of these sweets ingredients such as sugar, Water and glucose that give way to a syrup that is cooked at extremely high temperatures. Behind the evaporation from the water there is a caramel paste to which it can be given different shapes. Once the cooling is total and the mass is crystallized, it is wrapped and packaged to be distributed in warehouses, kiosks, confectioneries, supermarkets, among other commercial establishments, that the sell to consumer final.With the intention of making them more desirable, the companies that produce them wrap them in striking paper and give them very vivid colors.
Meanwhile, in this eagerness to make different and desired candy, we can find various types: filled with gum, with chocolate, with dulce de leche, among other sweets.
On the other hand, the sugar that is melted in a homemade way with the mission of accompanying desserts such as flan, is also called caramel.
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