Kashrus Kurrents, Winter 1997

Walking through a candy store leaves one with little doubt that great creative genius has been a long time associate of the candy industry. It is an absolutely amazing act of wizardry to see the multitude of confectionery varieties, shapes, textures, and tastes that can emerge from sugar, chocolate, and corn syrup. Chewy caramels, cotton candy, lollipops, chocolate pralines, nut logs with creamy nougat fillings, the list is endless.

So what could be wrong with candy? Especially if the ingredient panel states only simple, natural ingredients? Not so simple.

At times a product may have nothing that presents a Kashrus problem, but at other times the seemingly identical product can be very problematic.

Let’s take a behind the scenes tour of Kosher candy manufacturing, where we can examine the production processes and procedures of some of the popular delicious confections enabling us to pinpoint the Kashrus […]