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Shen Mingzhu purchased apples to make apple gummy candies.

In this era, candy is both a rarity and an indispensable necessity for people's livelihood.

You need to buy candies when dealing with favors, you need to buy candies for weddings and birthdays, and you also need to buy candies during holidays.

A small piece of candy carries the childhood of thousands of children.

Currently, the candies on the market are mainly milk candies, halva candies, and fruit-flavored hard candies. There are also soft candies, such as nougat, lard candy, orange candy, and corn candy. Apart from these, there are almost no other candies on the market. Fruit gummies.

At least, not here in Fengcheng.

She is confident that with what she has learned 40 years later, she will be able to occupy a place in the candy market.

This is just the first step of her plan.

After the apple gummies successfully open up the market, she will continue to develop more snacks using apples as raw materials, and then gradually open up the market for these snacks and promote them nationwide, which can increase the income of local fruit farmers.

Although she is just an ordinary woman, she also wants to do her best to do something extraordinary.

The process of making fruit gummies is not complicated, and the ingredients are also simple. You only need sugar, lemon, and edible pectin.

There are many sugars used to make candies, such as sucrose, glucose, rock sugar, maltose, white sugar, etc.

But these sugars are not used to make candies, but starch syrup is used.

Compared with sucrose and maltose, starch syrup has a milder sweetness, has a certain viscosity and moisturizing properties, and more importantly, is very cheap, which can reduce production costs to a great extent.

It is impossible to buy fresh lemons during the current season, but citric acid can be used instead.

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Everyone has different opinions on Shen Mingzhu's concepts and ideas.

Pei Yang naturally supported her unconditionally.

Du Juan and Shen Chaobei were not opposed to her making apple gummy candies, but they felt that a new product had been released this month, and they should first make profits from potato chips before considering developing new products.

Shen Hongmei remained neutral, neither opposing nor supporting.

Shen Mingzhu also expressed the reason why she is anxious to make new products, "There is still one month before the Spring Festival. If we act quickly, we may be able to launch it before the Spring Festival. Candies during the Spring Festival are very popular. Needless to say, everyone knows Do you know?"

"Just think about it, when we return to the village during the Chinese New Year, all the people in the village will eat are apple candies produced by our food factory. How proud of that."

It has to be said that Shen Mingzhu accurately grasped the pain point of the couple's "returning home in rich clothes".

Du Juan and his wife were persuaded in this way and agreed with Shen Mingzhu's idea.

Once the opinions are unified, the next step is to take action.

In addition to the raw materials needed to make fruit gummies, you also need a commercial wall-breaking machine, called a crusher in this era, a stainless steel pot for boiling sugar, a mold for sugar cubes, etc.

Buying materials and equipment requires money for everything.

All the funds on the books have been invested in the production of potato chips, and the goods sold have not yet been paid back. Currently, there is less than 100 yuan left in the books.

I still have more than 3000 in savings at home, and I can use some of it.

After asking Pei Yang what he meant, Shen Mingzhu borrowed 1000 yuan from himself in the name of a legal person for the production of the food factory.

With the money, everyone acted independently under Shen Mingzhu's arrangement.

Pei Yang went to the sugar factory to purchase starch syrup and fine sugar, and Du Juan went to the food market to buy edible pectin, citric acid and preservatives.

Unlike hard candies, soft candies have a high water content and can easily go rancid if an appropriate amount of preservatives are not added.

Shen Mingzhu herself went to an equipment factory to buy a juicer, and then went to a steel factory to customize stainless steel pots and molds.

Stainless steel pots and molds require a certain amount of time to make. Before the equipment was ready, Shen Mingzhu made several trials with different ratios. After determining the final formula, she began to train sugar workers.Because she also had to take care of the production of potato chips, Shen Mingzhu only transferred two workers to the sugar production team.

Including her, there are three people in total. Shen Chaobei can come over to help when he has nothing to do. He will first produce the first batch of apple gummy candies.

The response has been good, so it’s not too late to recruit more people.

Apples need to be peeled and seeded before juicing.

Peeled apples are prone to oxidation. You can soak the apples in light salt water for 5 to 10 minutes before peeling, so that the peeled apples can be stored for a long time without being oxidized.

Use a grinder to make the peeled apple pieces into a puree, then pour it into the pot and cook it. After the puree in the pot boils, add starch syrup, citric acid and pectin in sequence, and continue to cook.

This step is very critical, and Shen Mingzhu also tried many times before mastering the melting point limit.

After the puree and sugar in the pot are perfectly combined into a gelatinous state, pour it into a rectangular stainless steel plate, flatten it, wait until it solidifies to a certain extent, and then use a mold to press it into a beautiful shape.

Finally, stir with fine sugar powder, cool, and the apple gummy candy is finished.

Shen Mingzhu was not in a hurry to sell or continue production. Instead, she picked a few bags of samples and sent them to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau for filing and to a third-party agency for testing.

This is a necessary procedure for adding new products.

Both filing and testing take a certain amount of time, and Shen Mingzhu was not idle while waiting.

I gave some apple gummies to my relatives and friends, asking them to taste it and help promote it.

She made an appointment with Zhong Qing first, but Zhong Qing seemed to be busy these two days and would not have time to see her until next week.

Shen Mingzhu decided to send it to Li Bing first.

Li Bing is also an open-minded person. After learning her intention, he directly asked her to send the candy to the nurse's duty room.

"Sister Bing, thank you so much. Every time I have something to do, you are the first one to help me."

Li Bing waved his hand, "Thank you, thank you. I have taken advantage of you. Every time you come out with a new product, I am free. I should help you a little."

"Okay, give me the stuff. There are a lot of people in the duty room right now. If I carry the stuff in and share it with them, won't everyone know about your new product?"

Shen Mingzhu nodded gratefully and handed over the two paper bags in his hands.

"Sister Bing, both bags weigh three pounds. You can take one bag home and take the other bag to the duty room for distribution."

Li Bing looked at the two large bags of candies and felt embarrassed, "Oh, why did you bring so many? I'm afraid I won't be able to finish them all until the Chinese New Year."

"If you can't finish it, eat it slowly. It will save you money on candy during the Chinese New Year."

"Okay, thank you."

Shen Mingzhu was just about to say no thanks when a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears——

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Shen Mingzhu turned her head and saw Yan Yi a few steps away, with a look of surprise on her face.

Li Bing hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "Professor Yan, are you here to give a lecture today?"

Hearing Li Bing's name, surprise flashed across Shen Mingzhu's face.

Then I thought again, if Yan Yi could become the chief expert in psychology, how could he have such low academic qualifications?

It can be seen that Yan Yi actually had another purpose in forming the study group.

After Yan Yi nodded in response to Li Bing's greetings, he glanced at the two paper bags Li Bing was carrying with a smile, and said to Shen Mingzhu: "I see you are happy from afar. Is there anything good? I don't mind your opinion. Do you have a share?"

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