The Properties and Uses of CornSyrupsAmong the usual sweeteners avail-able to the cook, corn syrups are alone inproviding long carbohydrate molecules thatget tangled up with each other and slowdown the motion of all molecules in thesyrup, thus giving it a thicker consistencythan any but the most concentrated sucrosesyrups. It’s largely these long tangly mole-cules that have made corn syrup increas-ingly important in confectionery and otherprepared foods. Because the tangling inter-feres with molecular motion, it also hasthe valuable effect of preventing other sug-ars in candy from crystallizing and pro-ducing a grainy texture. All molecules in thesyrup are flowing very slowly