So, what is white chocolate?

Factual Questions
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So, I am sitting here munching on a Cadbury Dream bar. It advertises itself on its package “Real White Chocolate”.

Now, I love white chocolate. But really, what is it? The ingredients in the bar include : Sugar, Milk Ingredients[sub] can they be a little more vague?[/sub], Cocoa Butter, Soya Lechtin, Polyglycerol Polyreicinoleate [sub]sounds scary[/sub], Artificial Flavor.

Now, I would think that real “chocolate” would have cocoa in it (not just butter) but that would make it brown (wouldn’t it?)

So, since this is “real” white chocolate and has no “cocoa” in it per se, what makes something “real chocolate”?

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Cecil Adams on How does white chocolate differ from real chocolate?

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Real chocolate contains both cocoa butter and cocoa solids, whereas white chocolate only contains cocoa butter.

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I’m afraid I’m pretty unimpressed with Unca Cece’s answer-- uh, nonanswer-- on this one. However, it is true that white chocolate contains little or no cocoa. According to Ghirardelli,

As for your Dream bar, the “milk ingredients” are a natural product, and kind of vague by nature. There’s probably some milkfat, some milk protein, some lactose, and other stuff such as is found in milk. Polyglycerol polyricinoleate is basically a big honkin’ molecule made from castor oil. It’s probably there to add gloss, and maybe prevent untimely melting.

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Thanks Nametag. Cecils answer was a little lame IMHO as well, but whatever… he da man.

Thanks for your .02

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I don’t see how the answer was lame. No one here seems to have provided any more information than he did AFAICT.

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You all miss it, as does Cecil.

The real answer is that white chocolate is an abomination. Yea, an abomination unto the Lord.

I had to eat this crap as a kid when I was allergic to real chocolate. It got to the point where I told my folks not to bother. I’d rather have an empty Easter basket than one filled with disgusting waxy bunnies.

:mad:

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They take the cocoa beans & mash them, when that happens it becomes two things, 1)butter &
2) cocoa

White chocolate, which I really enjoy, as they said is 1)…

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I prefer dark chocolate myself.

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Why, I would prefer they mix the two.

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I enjoy ‘normal’ chocolate, but the white stuff is great in small doses… not too much, or my throat starts to hurt.

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In my kitchen, we call it choco-lard.

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In my kitchen, we call it choco-lard.

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Could some one explain what cocoa butter is and how they separate it and what it is (essentially fat?), and what cocoa consists of (fat, protein, other?)

p.s I love white chocolate. Soooo bad for you