What makes chocolate taste different?
What is chocolate made of? High quality, gourmet, premium or fine dark chocolate, depending on your terminology, typically consists simply of cocoa (cocoa solids and cocoa butter), sugar (preferably cane sugar), natural vanilla (not Vanillin) and sometimes soya lecithin (a natural emulsifier). It should contain no less than about 50% cocoa content, depending on the use, between 55% and 75% cocoa content is ideal. Higher cocoa contents up to 100% are available however for those who prefer a strong bitter chocolate and also a reduced or absent sugar content. Milk alone can be added to this fine dark chocolate to make milk chocolate, which typically contains 32% cocoa, although higher cocoa content milk chocolate is available and so providing a milk chocolate with increased richer flavours and reduced sugar. White chocolate generally contains no cocoa solids at all, just the cocoa butter, and as such technically isn’t chocolate. Most commercial, mass produced chocolate however is quite di
