Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Don't Mess with Chocolate

So it has come to my attention that the FDA is going to pass a bill redefining the meaning of chocolate. This bill allows chocolate manufacturers to replace cocoa butter with other oils and milk or milk fat with milk weigh. The currant definition of rchocolate is that it must contain chocolate solids and cocoa butter if you call your product chocolate. If you call you product milk chocolate it must cantain milk fat or milk. If you call your product dark chocolate you can add some milk fat or solids. Cocoa butter has an extremly different mouth-feel than other fats and isn't as bad for you as most vegetable oils. This isn't a huge political issue, but it's frustrating that corporations are trying to cheat us out of a higher quality product. I'll post a link to a more detailed site.

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