Everyone has heard of the popular sugar confection called rock candy. It’s a great experiment for kids to learn about the science behind these tasty treats. But what exactly is rock candy? Rock candy is a crystallized sugar confections that consists of large sugar crystals. Because impurities are removed as the crystals develop, it’s the purest form of crystals. This is the same process that’s used to produce quartz and diamonds. Where did rock candy come from? Until the middle of the 18th century, the only use of sugar was for medicine but then people discovered it made a sweet treat. Rock candy has been around for over a thousand years and was most likely invented in the eastern part of the world.
The process to make rock candy is simple.
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It only requires two ingredients, sugar and water, Food coloring can also be added. Rock candy is made by breaking apart sucrose (sugar) molecular crystal lattice, and letting it to reform in conditions with purer and larger crystals. The process of making sugar crystals, however, is much more complicated. Growing these crystals is made by disturbing the balance that resides in a sugar and water solution. In order for this to happen, the temperature of the saturated solution must be lowered. Basically, the water must dissolve all sugar at a certain temperature. The water dissolves more sugar if it’s warmer and that’s why the water is heated before you dissolve the sugar. Then, the saturated sugar solution becomes supersaturated when cooled. Finally the sugar starts to crystallize and transform from liquid to solid. The atoms of the sugar align themselves. They bond with the atoms of the sugar crystal that has begun to grow. As the cycle of growing and bonding continues, energy is released. The crystals slowly grow larger each day. All this talk about sugar might leave you wondering, what even is sugar? Just something you put in your coffee to make it sweeter? Well, it’s much more that just that. Sugar applies to any monosaccharide, also known as simple sugars, or disaccharide in the scientific world. Monosaccharides store chemical energy where biological cells change to other types of energy. An example of this is glucose, or anything ending in “ose”. Sugar are simple carbohydrates containing either aldehyde or ketone groups, which have carbon-oxygen double bonds, and that makes the sugar reactive. Hydrolysis can convert sucrose into a syrup of glucose and fructose, and that produces invert sugar. The result of this is a syrup sweeter than the original and this is used in making confections because it doesn’t crystallize as easy and creates a smoother completed product. Although rock candy is purely just sugar and water, it still has calories.
14 grams of rock candy contains around 50 calories. These calories mostly come from the carbs in the candy. Also, consuming rock candy in a small amount could prevent weight gain.
Believe it or not, but rock candy is more than just something you eat. Around the world, it has many uses, inside the kitchen and out. Rock candy is used in Iran to put in mouths before drinking unsweetened tea. It’s used in Chinese cuisine and medicine to sweeten tong sui and chrysanthemum tea, Sometimes it’s also used in Chinese liquors. In China, it’s used in several meat, fish, vegetable, and chicken dishes. Surprisingly, heroin or opium addicts use rock candy to fight against withdrawal symptoms. Rock candy is used in the Netherlands to prepare white bread called “Fryske Sûkerbôle”.
Additionally, it’s used in India with aniseed (Saunf in Hindi) as a mouth refresher, and they are usually offered along with the bill at restaurants after a meal. It’s used in Thailand as money because it was easily accessed and distributed Lastly, rock candy is used in Mexico to celebrate Day of the Dead by making sugar skulls. Children would make the candy in shapes of skulls and decorate them with icing and jewels and they were eaten after the
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