in a spinning pan, which looks a bit like a cement mixer, and the jelly beans are spun constantly. the color and flavor of the jelly beans comes from food coloring and artificial colors which are added, together with more liquid sugar, to the jelly beans. grains of sugar are then added to the spinning pan about 4 times to give the jelly beans their hard outer coating. in the final step hot syrup is added to the spinning pan to polish the beans and wax is added to give the jelly beans their glossy appearance. they are then dried and all they are packed for shipping. 