DEFINITION
Last update: 08/04/2024
Cocoa products are defined as products made exclusively from cocoa beans, such as cocoa paste and liquor, cocoa butter, unsweetened cocoa powder, cocoa cake and cocoa nibs, for example the following from the Directive 2000/36/EC [1]:
Chocolate is a product obtained from cocoa products and sugars which contains not less than 35% total dry cocoa solids, including not less than 18% cocoa butter and not less than 14% of dry non-fat cocoa solids [1, 2]. It is obtained by an adequate manufacturing process from cocoa materials which may be combined with milk products, sugars and/or sweeteners, and other additives. [2]
Milk chocolate is a product obtained from cocoa products, sugars and milk or milk products, which contains not less than 25% total dry cocoa solids, not less than 14% dry milk solids, not less than 2,5% dry non-fat cocoa solids, not less than 3,5% milk fat, not less than 25% total fat (cocoa butter and milk fat). [1]
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