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The history of the Gummi Bears
The humble gummi bear was the first gummi candy to be produced in 1922 by a German man named Hans Riegel, a manufacturer of Bonn candy. Hans originally called his creation the Dancing Bear "and launched its confectionery company" Haribo ", an acronym for Hans Riegel Bonn. Gummi bear was popular at the end of their first year of production and the candy is still sold in Germany today under the popular name Gummibar (rubber bear) or Gummibärchen (Little rubber bear).
A gummi bear is a sweet little orange gelatin base which is about 2 inches long, shaped like a bear and is presented by 5 different flavors (orange), strawberry (green), raspberry (red), pineapple (no color) and lemon (yellow). There have been other companies that have copied the gummi bear and introduced other flavors and colors, but these have never found their place in the production of Haribo.
Gummi bears has been so popular that it has led to a series other animals that are introduced into gummi confectionery including worms, penguins, frogs, snakes, sharks, hippos, lobsters, octopus and even the Smurfs and spiders.
The original gummi bear is made from a sugar, glucose syrup, starch, flavoring, coloring, citric acid, and gelatin. There are some gummy bears that have been produced to be suitable for vegetarians containing pectin or starch instead of gelatin. Gummi Bears made with gelatin or bovine or porcine, are not suitable for vegetarians and do not conform to kashrut or halal diets.
The gummi bear manufacturing process is a lengthy procedure and interesting artists starting with manufacturing making a sketch of the source and then casts small size. The molds are then doubling the use of machinery with duplicates through a starch powder machine to produce a set of starch powder mold pans.
The ingredients are poured into large boilers and heated, continuously stirred by large paddles mix. Colors and flavorings are added to the mix to give fresh rubber in appearance and flavor. The nozzles are used to tighten the mixture of starch dishes previously prepared which left three to five days to set. Beeswax is added to make bright candy and less sticky. Gummi candy finally moved to a packaging machine and ready to ship.
Gummi bear has gone from strength to strength in recent years Disney even the creation of a cartoon show in 1985, "The Adventures of the Gummi Bears," based on the German dessert. This adventure cartoon for children lasted 65 episodes in the show followed a family of gummi bears and many fun field trips.
Today, gummi bears are one of the more sweet Popular produced and sold to children and adults alike around the world. The gummi bear is sweeter than candy and gelatin launched based Haribo and companies looking imitation add new flavors and sizes all the time to keep them interesting, gummi bears is the sweet of choice for future generations.
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