2007-01-04 00:49:06 · 5 answers · asked by meow0911 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Not an easy answer by any stretch of the imagination... Chocolate, like many foods, is made up of a mix of other ingredients like sugar, cocoa, vanilla, emulsifiers, etc. I suppose it really depends on the quality of the chocolate you are interested in. You will also find a lot of information on the label of the chocolate you like to eat. I did find a web link that might help:
http://netra.netlink.com.au/sweettooth/edu/composition.htm
If you are really asking about cocoa, the answer still is not all that different. Cocoa is an agricultural product, harvested from trees and contains a wide variety of different 'chemical' components. Cocoa contains a fair amount of fat (cocoa butter), theobromine (the stuff that is so bad for dogs), proteins, antioxidants, etc. So, again, I am not really answering your question but I am not sure how to.
Here is one more link I found that might be helpful: http://www.acri-cocoa.org/
Quite a bit of information is available on the Internet if you need more help. Good luck!
2007-01-04 00:52:43 · answer #1 · answered by truthwalker7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chocolate is a mixture of many, many different chemicals. Even cocoa itself is a mixture. You will find that almost all plant products which we use are going to be a gigantic mixture of chemicals. This is why the artificial grape flavor isn't quite like the real thing. We can isolate and manufacture the primary grape flavor chemical, but reproducing the real thing would be incredibly expensive. When you get down to something like Vitamin C or say the caffeine in the cocoa, then you have a component of the plant that is very specific and it is a single chemical (Ascorbic Acid for Vita C) and can be more easily manufactured. So, in summary, chocolate is God's concoction of many different chemicals, and even moreso when we add sugar and milk to it.
2007-01-04 01:13:32 · answer #2 · answered by serf_tide 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Milk Chocolate isn't a single compound. It's a mix a several different ingredients, each of which are a mix of several compounds.
2016-05-23 02:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by Penelope 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a food!
It's not a simple chemical like salt but contains dozens maybe hundreds of different compounds, different sugars, lipids etc...
The bit that makes us happy is called Phenylethylamine or PEA.
2007-01-04 00:53:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares... its a treatment for PMS.
2007-01-04 00:50:34 · answer #5 · answered by bakfanlin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋