2007-08-08 10:58:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
It's a little like chocolate.
2007-08-08 11:02:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Carob
Carob is promoted as a chocolate substitute
Carob, however, does not taste like chocolate. The biggest thing that Carob and cocoa have in common is that they are both brown. Carob looks like chocolate and can function like chocolate, but the taste is completely different. In fact, the longer you roast the beans to get the colour closer to cocoa, the blander the flavour. Carob's taste is not unpleasant: a wag might observe that what makes so many "health food" Carob bars taste awful is all the other healthy stuff that is used in them.
Chocolate lovers hate Carob: some will say you might as well be eating dirt. In the eyes of the new Food Moralists, however, Carob's main virtue is that it is not chocolate, chocolate having been tainted in their minds as being vaguely immoral.
2007-08-08 11:06:14 · answer #2 · answered by caroline ♥♥♥♥♥ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Carob was touted as a chocolate replacement.
It taste nothing like chocolate.
Carob itself doesn't have a distinct flavor (that I remember). It just depends upon what sweetens it.
2007-08-08 11:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by Dave C 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋