The basic ingredient in chocolate is cocoa beans. When producing it, you can use just one kind or mix it with others to get the results you want. The beans should be peeled and fried at low temperatures to discover the flavor. After that, they are ground into cocoa mass.

Under high pressure, this paste yields 2 products: cocoa powder and cocoa butter. Or cocoa mass can be mixed with a lot of cocoa butter and sweetener to make chocolate. Basically, the first steps are about mixing and grinding raw products to make them into a paste.

The used ingredients depend on the type of chocolate that is made:

For dark chocolate, you only need cocoa mass, cocoa butter, and sugar.
If you add dry milk, you get milk chocolate.
White chocolate is made with cocoa butter, sugar, and dry milk. Cocoa mass is not used. This is why some people don’t think it’s real chocolate.

❗️Vegetable fats, E numbers, artificial flavorings, soy lecithin, PGPR, vanillin, and emulsifiers are signs of generic chocolate. Cocoa butter is not used in this chocolate, it’s replaced with cheaper sources of fat, such as palm oil.

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