«A day without chocolate is a day wasted»

What is chocolate?

Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, the dried and partially

fermented seeds of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). Cacao trees

are small (4–8 m (or 15–26 ft) tall). The fruit is called a cacao pod .The

pod contains 20 to 60 seeds, usually called "beans", embedded in a white pulp. The seeds are the

main ingredient of chocolate.

a cacao tree

cacao beans

What is chocolate made of?

Types of chocolate

Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk.

White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk, but no cocoa solids.

White chocolate is formed from a mixture of sugar, cocoa butter and milk solids. Although its texture is similar to milk and dark chocolate, it does not contain any cocoa solids.

Dark chocolate is produced by adding fat and sugar to the cacao mixture.

Bittersweet chocolate is unsweetened chocolate to which some sugar (less than a third), more cocoa butter, vanilla and sometimes lecithin has been added.

Potential health effects

“A day without chocolate is a day wasted”

Michel Roux

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