Cocoa Butter facts
While investigating facts about Cocoa Butter Kisses and Cocoa Butter Kisses Lyrics, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In the US, in order to be legally called "chocolate", a product must contain cocoa butter. Phrases like "chocolatey" and "chocolate flavored" are used for products that do not contain cocoa butter, but instead use other vegetable oils. These have a different taste than "real chocolate".
how cocoa butter is made?
White chocolate is white because it doesnt contain cocoa solids. Instead it is made from cocoa butter (the fatty part). As a result, one can tell that the more yellowy white chocolate is actually better quality than the white chocolate.
What's cocoa butter?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what's cocoa butter made from. Here are 10 of the best facts about Cocoa Butter Lotion and Cocoa Butter Stick I managed to collect.
what cocoa butter is good for?
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White chocolate is not chocolate. It is made with cocoa butter, a by-product of the cocoa bean in the chocolate making process, combined with milk, sugar, and other flavoring ingredients, but none of the cocoa bean is included.
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White Chocolate isn't actually chocolate, as it is not made with any cocoa beans. It is actually made of cocoa butter, the fat from cocoa beans.
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A paleontologist made a bet with a group of students: if they (improbably) found a mammal bone at a dig site, he'd buy them a cubic meter of chocolate. They found one, but chocolate can't be made in cubes that size. He gave them a cubic meter of cocoa butter and named the new species "cadburyi."
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White chocolate contains cocoa butter, but no chocolate solids. So it technically isn’t chocolate
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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are made with the controversial ingredient PGPR, used as a replacement for cocoa butter. The FDA said it was safe for humans as long as you restricted your daily intake to 7.5mg per kg of body weight - otherwise you’d be open to reversible liver enlargement.
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Some chocolates contain a cocoa butter substitute called PGPR that can damage your liver if you consume it in excess
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Dark chocolate, because of cocoa butter, absorbs nearby odors. No wonder my chocolate bar tasted like dryer towels.
