Detailed Explanation of the Processing Technology and Production Method of Ginger Juice Soft Candy

This product sells well on the market because the soft candy carries the flavor of ginger. The processing technology is as follows:

1. Raw material processing: select fresh young ginger, remove rotten ginger, and peel it by manual scraping or rubbing; chop it and put it into a pulping machine to make a slurry. The amount of water added depends on whether the ginger is old or young; older ginger can have a little more water added, while young ginger should have a little less water added.

2. Juice extraction by filtration: use pressing or a cloth bag to remove the residue and obtain ginger juice. The ginger residue can be comprehensively utilized after drying. The ginger juice is heated for sterilization and set aside.

3. Gelling agent treatment: the gelling agents used for soft candy include starch, carrageenan, sodium alginate, agar, etc. Here, agar is used as an example. Use an amount of agar equal to 2-2.2% of the total weight of raw materials, soak it in water 20 times its weight for several hours in advance, then heat and boil it into a uniform colloid.

4. Ingredients: weigh 30-35% starch syrup, with the remaining 60-65% by weight being white granulated sugar, then add ginger juice equal to 10-15% of the total sugar weight to the sugar and cook and heat it together with the agar colloid, mix thoroughly, stir continuously, and finally add citric acid equal to 0.2-0.3% of the raw material weight and 0.05% potassium sorbate respectively, and keep heating and concentrating until the solid content reaches 70%, then stop heating.

5. Pouring into trays: pour the thick slurry into shallow trays to a thickness of about 1 cm.

6. Cooling and shaping.

7. Cutting: use machinery to cut into pieces 1 cm wide and 2.5 cm long.

8. Wrapping in glutinous rice paper: wrap each piece of soft candy in a piece of thin glutinous rice paper; moisture can evaporate from both ends.

9. Drying: dry in a drying room at 45-50°C for 50 hours.

10. Packaging: wrap each piece individually in cellophane.

Ginger juice soft candy is semi-transparent, elastic and chewy, with a pleasant sweet-and-sour taste. It is slightly spicy and has the aromatic flavor of ginger.