Pop Rocks

As pop sugar is called in the molecular kitchen enclosed with sugar carbon dioxide bubbles.

History

Bang sugar was invented in 1956 by the American food chemist William A. Mitchell. For the General Foods Corporation in New Jersey he was looking for a way to make lemonade powder. However, since this was not possible with the bang sugar, the company was not interested to use the new product. In 1976 they came up with the idea of ​​the sugar add flavors and market it as candy.

Production and Properties

For the manufacture of sugar is heated until it becomes liquid. Thereafter, it is exposed to high pressure ( 40 bar) of carbon dioxide and then cooled.

By chewing or sucking tied up in the bang sugar carbon dioxide is released and causes a crackle on your tongue. The trapped gas to escape in comparison with the stability of sugar quickly, which is accelerated by a high humidity. Various fears about health risks have so far been scattered among other things, due to the low weight fraction of the compressed gases.