Why Use Corn syrup?
Whether in a home recipe or in a factory production, corn syrup provides fluidity, volume and a softer texture to the dessert sauce. It also helps to prevent graininess and crystallization, especially as the product sits on the shelf or in the fridge (i.e., longer shelf life). The bad news is that it lacks the flavor of sugar. A trained palate can taste the corn syrup in the product. It doesn’t taste as good. We’ve tasted quite a few specialty dessert sauces that use it. Some we liked, some we didn’t. Sweet & Saucy had the misfortune to arrive the week after we devoured jars and jars of Somebody’s Mother’s dessert sauces—among the best we’ve had in our lives, which don’t use corn syrup. Our immediate reaction to Sweet & Saucy was that we could not abide the corn syrup. But, we’re not quick to judge. We give things a chance. We tried them the next day, the next day and the next day. And as the memories of the other sauce faded from our palate, we decided that most people would enjoy Swe
