In candy making, corn syrup is known as an "interfering agent." You can find out just what this agent does by making two batches of lollipops, one with corn syrup and one without and examining the differences between the two. Once you understand what an interfering agent is, you could try experimenting with other ingredients to see if they can act as interfering agents as well.

Concepts

candy, food science

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Additional Tags

cooking project, corn candy, corn syrup, food science project, science fair project idea, science buddies

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)