What are soft candies made of? What are the types of soft candies?

Soft candy is made of sugar and starch syrup as the main raw materials, and agar, modified starch, gelatin and pectin as coagulants. It is made through boiling and molding processes. It is a candy with high water content and soft texture. It tastes chewy and is loved by adults and children. What are the categories of soft candy? Do you know?

Contents of this article

1. What is gummy candy made of?

2. What are the categories of soft candy?

3. Which brand of fruit jelly is the best?

What is fudge made of?

The main components of soft candy are sugars and colloids. The proportion of these two components varies depending on the type and nature of the soft candy.

The main feature of soft candy is that it contains different types of colloids, which make the sugar body have gel properties, so it is also called gel candy. Soft candy is named after the colloid used. For example, starch soft candy, agar soft candy, gelatin soft candy, etc. The following is a brief introduction to different types of soft candy:

1. Starch soft candy uses starch or modified starch as colloid. Starch soft candy is sticky and has poor transparency. The water content is between 7 and 18%. It is mostly made into fruit flavor or cool flavor.

2. Agar soft candy uses agar as the colloid. This type of soft candy has good transparency, good elasticity, toughness and brittleness. It is mostly made into fruit flavor, cool flavor and milk flavor. Crystal soft candy belongs to agar soft candy. The water content is about 18~24%.

3. Gelatin soft candy uses gelatin as the colloid, and the product is transparent, elastic and tough. The water content is similar to that of agar soft candy, and it is also made into fruit flavor, milk flavor or cool flavor.

In addition, according to different formulas and adding effective ingredients, after multiple operation steps, exquisite and durable candy-type health foods with different shapes, colors and tastes are formed, which have elasticity and chewy feeling. That is, nutritional ingredients or therapeutic drugs are appropriately added to soft candies to make nutritional soft candies or therapeutic soft candies.

What are the categories of soft candies?

1. Fruit juice jelly is made of syrup, sugar, gelatin and fruit juice. Soft candy with high fruit juice content has less sugar content than other candies and contains a lot of vitamin C, which can provide energy and a certain amount of vitamins to the human body.

2. Peanut candy is one of the specialty snacks originated by Lai Kee Bakery in Macau, with a history of one hundred years. The "Macau Specialty Peanut Candy" produced by Lai Kee Bakery relies on traditional craftsmanship and ancient secret recipes. The peanut candy produced has become a long-standing specialty product in the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Chinatowns around the world, Europe and the United States.

3. Fruit gummy candy is a kind of candy with high water content, soft, elastic and tough. It is divided into transparent fruit gummy candy and opaque fruit gummy candy.

What brand of fruit juice gummy candy is the best?

The brands of marshmallows are:

1. Dolike Fruit Juice Gummy Candy: It is a gummy candy imported from Hong Kong. It is a kind of candy with high water content, soft, elastic and tough. It comes in two types: transparent and opaque.

2. Jim's Fruit Gummy Candy: A well-known brand in Malaysia. This brand adds fruit juices of different flavors, has novel colors and shapes, and unique tastes, and is deeply loved by consumers.

3. Holiyuan Fruit Juice Gummy: This brand of gummy candy has a layer of milk on the outside, which has a strong milky flavor, and the inner layer can be added with fruits such as grapes and peaches.

4. Fujiya Fruit Gummy: The raw materials include glucose syrup, white sugar, maltose, glucose, corn starch, concentrated blueberry juice and other materials, and it tastes better.