Jelly bean

Context
Jelly beans, sometimes styled as jellybeans, are small bean-shaped candies with a hard, sometimes flavored shell, and a chewy, flavorful jelly-like interior. The shell and sometimes inside of jelly beans are colored based on their flavor, and sometimes they can have spots or splotches.

Manufacturing
Jelly Belly jelly beans can take 7 - 14 days to make. Below is a list of major steps when creating a jelly bean.

"Slurry"
Jelly Belly jelly beans start out as a flavored "slurry," which is hot mixture of water, corn syrup, sugar, and corn starch. Natural flavoring is added to the slurry whenever possible; for example, slurry made for peaches contain peach puree, and juicy pear slurry contains pear puree.

Molds
The slurry is then piped to a depositing room, where a machine pipes the slurry into a mold tray made out of starch. The starch helps prevent the jelly beans from sticking to the trays. Each mold tray can hold over 1,000 jelly beans. The trays then go into a room and stay there overnight to let the jelly bean centers firm.

Tumbler
Once the jelly beans are done firming they are put onto a conveyor and moved into a tumbler, where they are coated with sugar. This helps prevent the jelly bean centers from sticking together. The jelly beans rest overnight again.

Mogul
After ressting overnight, the jelly beans are then put into a mogul, where they develop their shells. The mogul spins with the jelly beans inside, and various liquids are hand-poured onto them. The jelly beans stay in the mogul for 2-3 hours.

Finishing touches
After another rest, the jelly beans receive one more coat of syrup, and they get an additional coat of confectioner's glaze and beezwax to give them their shine. The jelly beans are inspected & taste tested to make sure they meet Jelly Belly standards. The ones that don't are sold as Belly Flops.

Printing
The Jelly Beans that do pass through inspection are then put into the printing machine, which prints the Jelly Belly logo on each bean.

Finished
The jelly beans are now finished & ready to be shipped. Jelly Belly ships >15,000,000,000 jelly beans per year.

Trivia

 * In United States slang during the 1910s and early 1920s, a "jellybean" or "jelly-bean" was a young man who dressed stylishly but had little else to recommend him, similar to the older terms dandy and fop.