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On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 03:05:36 GMT, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

>Patrick Porter wrote:
>
>> I'd like to know which of the ordinary American type chocolates
>> have the highest butterfat---I can't seem to find a butterfat number
>> on any of the packages in my grocery store.
>
>Isn't it zero? I thought cocoa butter was required by law
>to be the fat in chocolate in the U.S.
>
Only in Europe, and even that is now being challenged. The EU insists
that the *only* type of fat in chocolate should be cocoa butter, if
the item is to be called "chocolate" and not "chocolate flavoured".
The British want to change that an allow anything with up to 5%
vegetable fats to still be called "chocolate" and not be forced to put
the insulting label of "chocolate flavoured" on their products. The
Europeans are fighting it tooth and nail!

In the US, I believe you can have vegetable fats _in addition_ to
cocoa butter in a product and still call it "chocolate" - but I'm not
sure what the percentage is.


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