How Are Jelly Beans Made?
Those little bits of sugary sweetness traditionally associated Easter celebrations have become a year-round treat. Anatomy of a Jelly Bean If you can restrain yourself from popping a whole jelly bean into your mouth and just bite one in half, you will see that jelly beans have 3 layers. The center of the bean is a clear jelly. The jelly is encased in a sugar coating. The third and final layer is the candy shell. The traditional jelly bean gets it brilliant color and fruity flavor from its candy shell. Gourmet beans, like the Jelly Belly brand, have flavor in both jelly layer and the candy coating. It is this flavoring process that give gourmet jelly beans their intense, unique taste. The Bean Is Born To made the jelly center sugar, corn starch, corn syrup and proprietary ingredients are mixed and heated in large boilers until the mixture combines to form a sugar syrup. The molten syrup is then poured into corn starch-coated jelly bean molds. The mold are transfers to a drying rooms whe
