Macarena Herrera Matilde Estrada 8ºA August 10th

About the lollypop… The first references to the lollipop in its modern context date to the 1920s, but it is not sure who has made it because it is probable that the lollipop has been invented and reinvented numerous times.

PROCESS  Materials:  The lollypops usually have water, sugar, corn syrup, flavorings (natural and artificial) and malic or citric acids. The ingredients varies by manufacture.

1. The sugar IS DROPPED down into 82ºC water and it IS DISSOLVED. This might took about 9 hours to melt kg of sugar. After this, the sugary water IS PUMPED into the pre-cooker.  2. Corn syrup (important ingredient in lollipops) IS also PUMPED in liquid form into the pre-cooker. Now, there are 55% liquid sugar and 45% corn syrup waiting to be heat.  3. The solution (liquid sugar-corn syrup) IS HEATED to around 109ºC.

 4. The heated solution IS then SENT to the final cooker where it IS COOKED under a vacuum for about 4 minutes to a temperature of about 143ºC. Large final cookers can cook up to 68kg. of candy in a batch.  5. After this, and just before it IS MIXED colour, flavour and citric or malic acid ARE ADDED (one flavour of lollipops IS MADE at a time), these flavours and colours are in liquid forms and HAVE BEEN carefully PRE-MEASURED. The candy batch now with flavour and colour IS MIXED. Mixing not only distributes flavour and colour, also reduces temperature and removes air bubbles produced from cooking and mixing.

 6. Now the candy is ready TO BE FORMED into a lollipop. The candy IS SENT to the batch rollers which extrudes the candy through cones and rolls into a fat rope. Then the batch IS SENT to the sizing wheels which reduces de rope to a smaller size. 7. The candy rope IS then SENT to the forming machine which presses the head into a spherical shape and insert the stick at the same time. The machine is forming 1000 pops per minute. Then, the lollipops ARE EXPOSED to a cool air, after 4 minutes they are at room temperature. 8. After the lollipops cool, they ARE MOVED into the wrapping machine. When they ARE WRAPPED, they ARE SENT to a boxing operation or a bagging operation depending on how they are to be retailed.

The lollypop process uses a lot of electric energy with the machines, and like everything now a days, it contaminates a lot.