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Article: Candy industry.(INDUSTRY)
- Article from:
- Indonesian Commercial Newsletter
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Confectionary or hard candies were first produced in the country by small industries with simple technology. However, in the 1990s big companies began to operate in the industry.
Candies or confectionery are produced from sugar mixed with other foodstuff like organic acid, milk, cacao, aroma, dyestuff and other edible materials.
Candies could be differentiated by water content--hard candies, soft candies, chewing gum and sugarless candies.
Hard candies have a water content of not more than 3%. Soft candies, which consists of jelly--a type of candies with water content of 7.5%--20% and non-jelly with a water content of 3%-7%.
Chewing ...