source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...602824_pf.html

....the current FDA standard for chocolate says it must contain cacao
fat -- a.k.a. cocoa butter -- and this proposal would make it possible
to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable oil instead of
that defining ingredient.

wrote

> source:
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...602824_pf.html
>
> ...the current FDA standard for chocolate says it must contain cacao
> fat -- a.k.a. cocoa butter -- and this proposal would make it
possible
> to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable oil instead of
> that defining ingredient.

As seen... in Europe. 2 years ago, IIRC.
So, now, one has to check all the ingredients to know whether he's
buying chocolate or crap.
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:55:52 +0200,"Vilco", wrote

> wrote
>
> > source:
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...4/26/AR2007042
> 602824_pf.html
> >
> > ...the current FDA standard for chocolate says it must contain cacao
> > fat -- a.k.a. cocoa butter -- and this proposal would make it
> possible
> > to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable oil instead of
> > that defining ingredient.
>
> As seen... in Europe. 2 years ago, IIRC. So, now, one has to check all
> the ingredients to know whether he's buying chocolate or crap.

If you are failing to check ingredients then your are neglecting
to remember the famous axiom of modern life "let the buyer beware".

later
bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com)

--
bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:55:52 +0200, in rec.food.cooking, Vilco wrote:

wrote
>
>> source:
>>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...602824_pf.html
>>
>> ...the current FDA standard for chocolate says it must contain cacao
>> fat -- a.k.a. cocoa butter -- and this proposal would make it
>possible
>> to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable oil instead of
>> that defining ingredient.
>
>As seen... in Europe. 2 years ago, IIRC.
>So, now, one has to check all the ingredients to know whether he's
>buying chocolate or crap.

There was a continental European attempt to have UK milk chocolate (which
does have cocoa butter) renamed, but that failed.
In the UK and the EU

chocolate - (a) The product obtained from cocoa products and sugars which,
subject to item 3(b), contains not less than 35 per cent total dry cocoa
solids, including not less than 18 per cent cocoa butter and not less than
14 per cent of dry non-fat cocoa solids.

milk chocolate (a) The product obtained from cocoa products, sugars and
milk or milk products which, subject to item 4(b), contains -

- not less than 25 per cent total dry cocoa solids;

- not less than 14 per cent dry milk solids obtained by partly or
wholly dehydrating whole milk, semi-skimmed or skimmed milk, cream, or
from partly or wholly dehydrated cream, butter or milk fat;

- not less than 2.5 per cent dry non-fat cocoa solids;

- not less than 3.5 per cent milk fat;

- not less than 25 per cent total fat (cocoa butter and milk fat).
Family milk chocolate or Milk chocolate

The product obtained from cocoa products, sugars and milk or milk
products which contains -

- not less than 20 per cent total dry cocoa solids;

- not less than 20 per cent dry milk solids obtained by partly or
wholly dehydrating whole milk, semi-skimmed or skimmed milk, cream, or
from partly or wholly dehydrated cream, butter or milk fat;

- not less than 2.5 per cent dry non-fat cocoa solids;

- not less than 5 per cent milk fat;

- not less than 25 per cent total fat (cocoa butter and milk fat).
--
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