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Everything You Need to Know About Milk Chocolate

You are probably starting to drool when you hear the words milk chocolate, but do you really know what milk chocolate is all about? Milk chocolate is actually only one specific type of chocolate that is available, and is typically found in a milk chocolate bar although there are other forms available as well.

Chocolate is quite impressive

Everything to do with chocolate is quite impressive, and by learning more about it, the next time you go to buy a chocolate product you will understand how it was manufactured.

Processed foods

Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Pure unsweetened chocolate contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions.

Types of Chocolate

There is the milk chocolate which is sweet chocolate that contains milk powder or condensed milk to sweeten it up, and there is white chocolate which contains cocoa butter, sugar and milk but no cocoa solids, which is why it is not dark like most chocolate.

Contains antioxidants

Then there is also the dark chocolate which contains antioxidants which explains why dark chocolate is considered as being good for you and healthy, when eaten in moderate amounts of course.

Production

The production process of chocolate is truly fascinating. Roughly two-thirds of the world’s cocoa is produced in Western Africa, and there are two main jobs that are associated with the creation of chocolate products: chocolate makers and chocolatiers. The chocolate makers are those people who use harvested cacao beans and other ingredients to produce couverture chocolate while the chocolatiers use the finished couverture to make chocolate candies such as bars and truffles.

Really quite interesting

Obviously there is much more to milk chocolate and other types of chocolate than most people realize, and once you begin learning about it you find it really quite interesting.

To get nutrition

If you are looking to get nutrition out of your chocolate you are going to need to stick to dark chocolate products, but if you are looking for the type of chocolate most people eat you will want to go for the basic candy bars such as Aero, Hersheys and Nestle, for instance.

Own chocolate products

Chocolate is absolutely delicious and there are few people who do not have a taste for it. It is definitely worth it to learn more about chocolate not only so you can find the best chocolate products that you are going to love, but because if you learn enough you can actually even start making your very own chocolate products right in the comfort of your own home.

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