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The origin of candy
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The history of candy can be traced back to 3,000 years ago, and the word "starch" appeared in ancient Chinese books in the Han Dynasty, and starch candy may have been an early hard candy.
The history of candy can be traced back to 3,000 years ago, and the word "starch" appeared in ancient Chinese books in the Han Dynasty, and starch candy may have been an early hard candy.
More than 1,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians used honey, dates, and figs to make sweets; During the Tang Dynasty, sugarcane was introduced to China from India for cultivation; In the late sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, the French proposed crystalline sugars from sugar beets; Cocoa was discovered in Europe in the 16th century, and it was only in the 19th century that cocoa was made into chocolate; It was only in the late nineteenth century that the confectionery production process gradually took shape.
In the early days, candy was mainly made of granulated sugar and liquid syrup, which was boiled, with some food additives, and blended, cooled, and formed to form sweet solid foods with different textures, shapes, different colors, aromas, tastes, different packaging, and easy to carry. The tissue structure of candy is amorphous or microcrystalline solid, and the quality requirements for candy are: small water absorption, strong anti-crystallization, low sweetness, high delicacy, and good shape retention.
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