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Miwu Science settles a sweet argument with wheat and rice

A kitchen experiment reveals where the syrup's sweetness comes from, drawing more than 200,000 views in eighteen hours.

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Miwu Science Story of November 1, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 232,359 views a day, 20 times a normal first day on this channel (11,900).

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A relative insists the name settles it: of course maltose comes from wheat. Miwu Science's presenter has a more complicated answer, and makes a batch to demonstrate why both wheat and rice deserve credit.

The Short has already drawn more than 200,000 views in eighteen hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for the format. Among the comments are viewers welcoming Miwu back, though the kitchen chemistry gives this upload a story of its own.

First comes the surprisingly slow part of a short video: growing wheat sprouts. The grains soak overnight, then spend days sprouting under gauze before being crushed. Meanwhile, glutinous rice is cooked into porridge and left to cool slightly.

Combining them is where the science happens. Amylase in the sprouts breaks the rice's long starch chains into maltose, illustrated with an animation that makes the otherwise invisible process visible. The mixture is kept warm, strained through cloth and simmered into thick syrup.

So is it made from wheat? In this recipe, yes and no. The wheat supplies the enzymes that make the transformation possible, but the rice starch supplies the sugar. What begins as an argument over a name ends with a useful distinction between the ingredient doing the work and the ingredient being transformed.

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