The Science Behind Candy Corn: Is It Really Made With Bugs?

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Yes... and no! That's the short answer at least. 🍭🌽
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Bugs in food
1:12 Shellac a bug-derived ingredient
1:24 Where shellac comes from
3:00 Why shellac is used in foods
3:51 Alternatives to shellac
4:29 Candies that use shellac
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it’s very likely that there are buggy parts in most of your food. 🪰Unless your diet contains only ultra-processed foods, those fruits, veggies, and grains are all grown outside surrounded by nature (and bugs). 🍁
The specific ingredient that gets candy corn involved in the whole myth about using bugs as an ingredient is called shellac. Shellac is a lac-resin from the insect Laccifer lacca.
✅ Does candy corn use bugs as an ingredient? No.
✅ Does candy corn have bug poop in it? No.
✅ What’s candy corn actually made out of? A lot of sugar and glazed with an insect section named shellac.
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@fishbuddy547 9 ай бұрын

Oh yay. I found a cool channel before it blows up with views. I would have never guessed Shellac was used in foods, you use it as a protective spray when etching in print-making some times. It's used on copper plates to protect them when they get put in acid baths. I Never knew it was edible. Awesome video ❤

@AbbeytheFoodScientist 9 ай бұрын

That's crazy! I never knew all the non-food uses for shellac. Between the two of us, we've got everything covered :)

@WageningenBC23 9 ай бұрын

Bedankt

@AbbeytheFoodScientist 9 ай бұрын

You are da best :)

@WageningenBC23 9 ай бұрын

Love your videos! But still prefer beeswax over shellac.

@nsudam 9 ай бұрын

HMoG! Its good to know no one is pure vegeterian in this world🤯😱🤣🤣😂.

@AbbeytheFoodScientist 9 ай бұрын

The biggest vegetarian mistake I've ever heard of was that many decades ago McDonald's fried their French fries in beef fat (tallow) and consumers didn't know!

@angelm8557 3 ай бұрын

You can not compare some shellack bugs to bees! Bees are very clean and work like humans. In some languages like Polish bees die on same word like humans and only bees. Humans died it is “zmarł” where dog or other „zdechł”. Lady Please do not compare bees to other disgusting bugs! I never eat that kind of candies in my life and never will. Only reptiles it bugs .There are many people look like humans but they are not . Don’t look on those .