Food Lens · Snacks
Hard candy
Intensely sweet, often fruit- or mint-flavored, with a hard, glassy texture that slowly dissolves.
Lens analyzedHard candy is a sugar syrup boiled to a high temperature and cooled into a solid, glassy piece, meant to be sucked on slowly rather than chewed. Its dense, non-crystallized sugar structure is what gives it that long-lasting, glass-like texture.
Where it comes from
Boiling sugar to a hard crack stage is an old confectionery technique, and hard candy became a mass-produced, individually wrapped product through the 19th and 20th centuries as sugar refining grew cheaper and more widespread.
Buying it
Check the wrapper for a clean seal with no sticky residue, which would suggest the candy has been exposed to humidity.
Storing it
Store wrapped candies in a cool, dry pantry, since humidity turns hard candy sticky and cloudy over time.
Keeps about 1 year in the pantry.
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