Hi gang. I just asked Cecil this question, but I wanted to see what y’all could tell me about this.
There’s vegetable fat in European candy bars.
This grosses me out.
I´ve Googled it a bit and learned that it´s a English method and the French don´t dig it much. Here in Iceland where I´m staying you can´t really avoid the vegetable fat unless you buy expensive imported chocolate…like from the States.
Do American companies add veggie fat, too? Perhaps it´s in the ingredients under another name? Does anyone really care?
I know junk food is bad for me and I´m sure there´s other things in my diet to worry about but I like something sweet sometimes.
Well, my American Fastbreak candy bar list “Partially Hydrogentated Vegatable Oil” in the ingredient list. It taste fine to me; of course, I have a very degraded pallet.
If it’s any consolation, cocoa butter is a vegetable fat.
At one point there was a battle to try and force chocolate manufacturers using other vegetable fats than cocoa butter to rename their chocolate, eg, “vegelate”.
Just console yourself with the fact that, vegetable fat or not, English chocolate is far more flavourful than (ugh) Hershey’s, for instance. Now if Cadbury’s would just make a version of Reese’s Cups using Dairy Milk chocolate, I would be in heaven. (And several stone overweight.)