Candy other ingredients

The food flavor industry is the largest user of vanillin, an indispensable ingredient in chocolate, candy, bakery products, and ice cream. Commercial vanilla extracts are made by macerating one part of vanilla beans with ten parts of 40—50% alcohol. Although vanillin is the primary active ingredient of vanilla beans, the full flavor of vanilla extract is the result of the presence of not only vanillin but also other ingredients, especially Httle-known resinous materials which contribute greatly to the quaUty of the flavor. 

Julie wants to make some candy using a recipe that calls for 1 cups of sugar, 2 cup of boiling water and several other ingredients. She finds that she has only 1 cup of sugar. If she adjusts the recipe for 1 cup of sugar, how much water should she use ... 

Butylated Hydroxyanisole. 2- and 3-/ i -Butyl-4-methoxyphenol (butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)) is prepared from 4-methoxyphenol and tert-huty alcohol over siUca or alumina at 150°C or from hydroquinone and tert-huty alcohol or isobutene, using an acid catalyst and then methylating. It is widely used in all types of foods such as butter, lard, and other fats, meats, cereals, baked goods, candies, and beer as an antioxidant (see Antioxidants Eood additives). Its antioxidant properties are not lost during cooking so that flour, fats, and other BHA-stabiLized ingredients may be used to produce stabilized products. 

Sorbitol is used in low-calorie candies and in many other foods as both a sweetener and a humectant (moisture-retaining ingredient). It also is used as an emollient (skin softener) in soaps. 

Some people prefer dark chocolate. Others go for the gooey chocolate-covered cherries. Many don t care for coconut in their sweets. And most people are happy with any mixture of any kind. Different kinds of candies have different prices, depending on the ingredients. When you combine different candies in packages, the quality or price of each type is multiplied by the quantity or weight to determine the price of the mixture. 

Ref A. Stettbacher, Explosivst 1956,27 Aluminum Flore are military devices contg pyrotechnic compns which are mixts of finely powdered substances compressed into candies. The most important ingredients in a pyrotechnic compn are the fuel and the oxidizing agent. To these are usually added other materials to intensify the color of the light produced, decrease the burning rate, act as a binder and waterproof the compn... 

The primary use of liquid petrolatum is as a laxative, a product that loosens the bowels. It also has a number of other applications, such as an additive in foods such as candies, confectionary products, and baked goods as an ingredient in personal care products, such as baby oil creams, hair conditioning lotions, and ointments in many different kinds of pharmaceutical preparations in the production of industrial lubricants as a softening agent in the manufacture of rubber, textiles, fibers, adhesives, and machine parts as dust suppressants and as dehydrating agents for a number of industrial processes. 

Kerosene is used to power lamps and heaters. Power plants and factories use petroleum coke, a solid fuel made of petroleum, as a fuel. Asphalt and tar, solid materials left over after the fractionation of petroleum, are components of paved roads. Petrolatum, another solid component of petroleum, is used as a lubricant and moisturizer. Paraffin wax, also obtained as a by-product of petroleum distillation, is an ingredient in candles, candy, polishes, and matches. Other forms of petroleum are used as lubricating oils for engines or as solvents in paints. 

Mapla augar Sugar obtained by evaporating maple syrup. Ingredient of candies and other sweets. Provides mainly calories and sugar. Some products contain mixtures of maple and other sugars. 

Food. Aloe extracts are used as a flavor ingredient primarily in alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages and in candy to impart a bitter note. Based on the reported average maximum use levels of about 0.02% in alcoholic (186 ppm) and nonalcoholic (190 ppm) beverages and 0.05% in candy, the extracts used must be tinctures or greatly diluted extracts, as standard extracts (e.g., solid extract or fluid extract) would contain too much active anthraglycosides to be safely used. The most preferred commercial aloe exudates used in bitter spirits (Port Elzabeth and Mossel Bay aloes) show a balance of major aromatic constituents not found in many other aloe extracts. ... 

Food. Used as a flavor ingredient in chewing gum and other major categories of food products, such as alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, frozen dairy desserts, candy, baked goods, and gelatins and puddings. Use levels are usually rather low. 

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