Chocolate is a sweet food with cocoa powder as the main raw material. It not only tastes delicate and sweet, but also has a strong aroma. Chocolate can not only be eaten directly, but also often used to make cakes, ice cream and so on. On romantic Valentine's Day, it is an indispensable protagonist to express love. Chocolate contains very rich nutritional value, besides calories, there are potassium, phosphorus, vitamins and so on.
Chocolate is divided into dark chocolate, white chocolate and milk chocolate. Dark chocolate is what we commonly call pure chocolate. Among the three kinds of chocolates, dark chocolate is more beneficial to human body.
Dark chocolate is the favorite of people who like to taste "original chocolate" Because there is no or a small amount of milk, sugar is usually low.
White chocolate is white because it contains no cocoa powder, only cocoa butter and milk. This kind of chocolate has only the fragrance of cocoa, and its taste is different from that of ordinary chocolate. Some people don't classify it as chocolate. Because the cocoa content is less and the sugar content is higher, the taste of white chocolate will be very sweet.
Milk chocolate is added with a certain amount of milk on the basis of dark chocolate, which tastes very good and is very popular among people. The cocoa taste of milk chocolate is lighter and sweeter, and it no longer has greasy taste. A good milk chocolate product should be a perfect balance between the fragrance of cocoa and milk.
Milk chocolate contains many stimulating substances, such as theobromine, phenylethyl and caffeine, which can enhance the vitality of the brain, make people more alert and pay more attention.
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According to the national standard of Chocolate, Chocolate with Cocoa Butter Substitute and Its Products, chocolate and its products have the following definitions-
1, chocolate: It is a food which is made of cocoa products (cocoa butter, cocoa mass or cocoa liquid mass/chocolate paste, cocoa cake, cocoa powder) and/or white sugar as the main raw materials, with or without dairy products and food additives, and keeps a solid or semi-solid state at room temperature through a specific process.
2, chocolate products: chocolate and other foods in a certain proportion, made by a specific process at room temperature to maintain a fixed or semi-solid state of food.
3. Chocolate substitute for cocoa butter: A food which is made of white sugar, cocoa butter substitute, etc. as the main raw materials (calculated by the original ingredients, the amount of cocoa butter substitute exceeds 5%), with or without cocoa products (cocoa butter, cocoa mass or cocoa liquid mass/chocolate paste, cocoa cake, cocoa powder), dairy products and food additives, and keeps a solid or semi-solid state at room temperature and has chocolate flavor and characteristics.
4. Chocolate substitute for cocoa butter: a food which is made of chocolate substitute for cocoa butter and other foods according to a certain proportion and keeps solid or semi-solid state at room temperature through a specific process.
According to national standards, the content of chocolate in chocolate products is not less than 25%, and products with more than 5% cocoa butter substitute must be marked with "chocolate substitute cocoa butter"
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