The Candy Trail: teacher key

How Candy Is Made, grade 4 edition, written for 4th grade. Follow sugar, cacao beans and syrup to see how hard candy, chocolate, jelly beans and cotton candy are made.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did people in ancient Egypt probably use to make the first candy?
   • Chocolate
   • Honey (answer)
   • Corn syrup
2. Why does hard candy snap?
   • It is filled with air
   • It is frozen
   • The syrup is cooked until it is nearly all sugar (answer)
3. What is the nib?
   • The meat of the roasted cacao bean (answer)
   • The shell of the pod
   • A kind of syrup
4. What does a depositor do?
   • Picks ripe pods
   • Squirts hot syrup into dents in starch (answer)
   • Spins cotton candy
5. What gives a jelly bean its hard shell?
   • Sugar built up in a spinning pan (answer)
   • A cold mold
   • A coat of gelatin
6. Why is starch used for shaping gummies and jelly beans?
   • It makes them sweeter
   • It makes them red
   • It keeps the shape pressed into it (answer)

Words

• cacao: chocolate tree
• nib: bean meat
• depositor: squirting machine
• gelatin: a gel maker
• glaze: shiny coating