Jelly beans

How are jelly bean made and why?

First they heat the sugar to 175 degrees Celsius in a kettle then glucose and starch are added with sugar.

In another part of the factory starch is poured on a tray. A leveller evens up the starch on a tray to make it flat. mould pressers down into the starch to make the shapes for the jelly beans. Each tray makes around 175 jelly beans moulds.

The sugar and starch mix is poured into the moulds. These trays can make 1 million jelly beans per hour! The conveyor takes them to drying room. They stay there for 24 hours. In the drying room they siletify (get hard) and they become chewier.

Next, big arms flip the trays of dried starch and sugar centres into a big drum which separates them. When the trays flip back, they fill up with starch to make moulds and the process begins again.

Meanwhile, the dried jelly beans centres are transferred to the steam belt- which makes them a little damp. They are put into drums that rotate as sugar sprays onto them.

In another part of the factory- a worker puts food colouring into liquid sugar. This mix is called           en grocery syrup. The worker add this, and some flavouring into the jelly beans. After they change colour- the worker dumps even more sugar into the drum.

This is repeated 4 times! There are 124,000 jelly beans in each drum!

Then they add hot syrup. This polishes the beans. Next, they add a little wax. The beans rub against each other. This makes them shiny.

Finally the drum stops spinning. It lets the jelly beans dry for 24 hours. Now the jelly beans are ready to eat.

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