July 28/Champaign-Urbana, Ill./FnBnews.com -- Questioning years of scientific belief, University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated that sugar does not melt, it decomposes.
"This discovery is important to food scientists and candy lovers because it will give them yummier caramel flavors and more tantalizing textures. It even gives the pharmaceutical industry a way to improve excipients, the proverbial spoonful of sugar that helps your medicine go down," says Shelly Schmidt, the university professor for food chemistry.