apparently are one
of the top-selling candies in the world,
photograph Stan Horaczek, with the various flavors in its roster, it actually takes a lot of time
and effort to add a new flavor that the masses will love, Popular Science details on the process behind the
famed gummies flavors:
Anointing a new flavor to the Haribo lineup,
however, takes some confection-making perfection. The company’s food scientists
test each recipe exhaustively for aroma, texture, and regional preferences. The
last step is key to ensuring a gummy will succeed across multiple markets. For
example, Triffler says, Americans and Germans don’t always agree on what a
“lemon” candy should taste like, making it tricky to develop a single yellow
piece for a mix that suits everyone’s tongues. The company even had to change
up Riegel’s famous recipe when introducing Goldbears stateside in the 1980s.
Haribo is quite
tight-lipped about what makes their gummies such a culinary
delight. But outside of the candy industry, food scientists are upfront about
the challenges of crafting gummies. “Most gummy confections contain 5 to 10
percent fruit juice and the rest is sugar water,” says Yael Vodovotz, a food-innovation scientist at Ohio State
University, “There are
non-synthetic flavors and dyes, but they’re really still mostly chemicals.” when thinking about gummy bears I immediately think of Homer,
and the candy show where he finds a prized gummy Venus de Milo,
in the Homer Badman episode, great fun!
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