What are candy canes made of?
Candy canes take sugar, corn syrup, water, corn starch and pigment directly. Trace them back and you pass 11 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
How candy canes are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Sugarcane through sugar
- Sugar beet through sugar
- Corn through corn starch
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Limestone through sugar, quicklime
- Titanium ore through pigment, titanium dioxide
- Crude oil through pigment, carbon black
- Air through pigment, carbon black
- Rock salt through pigment, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through pigment, titanium dioxide, coke
Made along the way: 7 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 6
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.