Chocolate is an extremely popular ingredient and it is available in many types. Different forms and flavours of chocolate are produced by varying the quantities of the different ingredients. Other flavours can be obtained by varying the time and temperature when roasting the beans.
Chocolate is any product based 100% on cocoa solid and/or cocoa fat. Because it is used in a vast number of other foods, any change in the cost of making it has a huge impact on the industry. Adding ingredients is an aspect of the taste. On the other hand, reducing cocoa solid content, or substituting cocoa fat with a non-cocoa fat, reduces the cost of making it. There has been disagreement in the EU about the definition of chocolate.
There are two main jobs associated with creating chocolate candy: chocolate makers and chocolatiers. Chocolate makers are those who physically create couverture chocolate from harvested cacao beans and other ingredients. Chocolatiers take the finished couverture to create chocolate candies (bars, truffles, baked goods, etc.).[2]
The word "chocolate" comes from the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs of Mexico. The word is derived from the Nahuatl word xocolatl (IPA /ʃo'kola:tɬ/; sho-KO-lattle)[3], which is a combination of the words, xocolli, meaning "bitter", and atl, which is "water". It is associated with the Mayan god of Fertility. Mexican philologist Ignacio Davila Garibi, proposed that "Spaniards had coined the word by taking the Maya word chocol and then replacing the Maya term for water, haa, with the Aztec.
The three main varieties of cacao beans used in chocolate are Criollo, Forastero and Trinitario.
Plain dark chocolate: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, and (sometimes) vanilla
Milk chocolate: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, milk or milk powder, and vanilla
White chocolate: sugar, cocoa butter, milk or milk powder, and vanilla
Part of the pleasure of eating chocolate is due to the fact that its melting point is slightly below human body temperature; it melts in the mouth. Chocolate intake has been linked with release of serotonin in the brain, which is thought to produce feelings of pleasure.
Research has shown that heroin addicts tend to have an increased liking for chocolate; this may be because it triggers dopamine release in the brain's reinforcement systems – an effect, albeit a legal one, similar to that of opium
Recent studies have suggested that cocoa or dark chocolate may possess certain beneficial effects on human health.
I Choose Chocolate.
2007-01-17 05:57:24
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answered by The Story Teller 2
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I like both tastes:chocolate & vanilla but vanilla is a little bit more (^_^)
2007-01-17 05:56:02
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answered by ..pAniC aTTacks.. 4
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If its ice cream, all of them
2007-01-17 05:54:25
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answered by sugar 3
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