太康縣糖廠開始制飴糖，是在1968年—1974年間。當時紅、白糖供應緊張，為了適應群眾需要，利用本縣盛產紅芋干之優越條件，開始用傳統工藝土法熬制紅色糖稀應市，產量50噸。1973年以后，接受華北制藥廠先進技術，又從上海引進一批我國新研制成功的“陰陽兩型交換樹脂”。能把紅色的糖水通過過濾，變成無色透明的糖水，再經過真空濃縮，色相不變，生產出無色透明的飴糖。其主要成分為：葡萄糖、麥芽糖、高糖、糊精四種。
    
     飴糖又名液體葡萄糖、淀粉糖漿、糖稀、化學稀等。具有溫和的甜味，耐高溫和無色透明等特點。廣泛應用于食品行業，是制作糕點、果汁、罐頭等的填充料。屢經河南省進出口商品商品監察局化驗，符合出口指標。所生產的飴糖，除一部分暢銷國內各省十幾個大城市（如北京、天津、武漢、南京、上海、廣州等）外，絕大部分由上海土產進出口公司直接出口，遠銷東南亞諸國，深受用戶好評。
    
    飴糖廠最高年產量為50萬噸，現已分設為兩廠，產品有飴糖和葡萄糖。


    Taikang Town made full use of the advantage of full of sweet potatoes and began to produce malt syrup in traditional technique between 1968 and 1974 when sugar is in tension supply. After 1973, it accepted advanced technology and equipment from other factories so that it produced transparent and colorless malt syrup whose main components are glucose, maltose, rich-sugar and gummeline.
      
    Malt Syrup is also called Glucose, Starch Syrup, Syrup and so on. It has moderate sweet flavor, high temperature resistance, transparent and colorless characteristics, and is widely used in food industry to make cakes, fruit juice, canned food and others. Besides some of products this town makes are sold to over ten cities in our country, most of them are exported to countries in Southeast Asia, which all earn much high praise.