Chocolate discussed

In the United States, chocolate and cocoa are standardized by the U.S. Food and Dmg Administration under the Federal Food, Dmg, and Cosmetic Act. The current definitions and standards resulted from prolonged discussions between the U.S. chocolate industry and the Food and Dmg Administration (FDA). The definitions and standards originally pubUshed in the of December 6, 1944, have been revised only slightly. 

This chapter defines the methylxanthine composition of raw and processed cocoa, as well as various chocolate foods and beverages. Patterns of consumption for cocoa and chocolate products are discussed and dietary intakes of caffeine from chocolate products are reported. 

Over a long time period it may well not be possible to duplicate library cell culture conditions. What happens when the lot of media used in the final culture step prior to pyrolysis has been consumed Can culture media suppliers assure nutritional identity between batches Media types for growth of fastidious strains invariably include natural products such as brewer s yeast, tryptic soy, serum, egg, chocolate, and/or sheep blood. Trace components in natural products cannot be controlled to assure an infinite, invariable supply. The microtiter plate wells used here do not hold much media. Even so, the day will come when all media supplies are consumed and a change in batch is unavoidable. When that happens, if there were no effective way to compensate spectra for the resulting distortions, it would be necessary to re-culture and re-analyze replicates for every strain in the reference library. Until recently the potential for obsolescence was a major disincentive for developing PyMS spectral libraries of bacteria. Why this is no longer an insurmountable problem is discussed in the next section. 

Let us, however, deal in detail with just two of these odd motifs, both much discussed in the Duchamp literature, namely the Cemetery of Uniforms, etc. and the Chocolate Grinder. As before, our task is to root out their... 

The huge variety of emulsions used as food, medicinal, cosmetic, and other industrial products make these colloids important practical systems in which the surface monolayers exert considerable influence. We have already discussed the use of lecithin to control the viscosity and the texture of chocolate in Vignette IV in Chapter 4. 

The table also reports the standard deviation of three replicate measurements for each sample. Standard deviation, discussed in Chapter 4, is a measure of the reproducibility of the results. If three samples were to give identical results, the standard deviation would be 0. If results are not very reproducible, then the standard deviation is large. For theobromine in dark chocolate, the standard deviation (0.002) is less than 1% of the average (0.392), so we say the measurement is reproducible. For theobromine in white chocolate, the standard deviation (0.007) is nearly as great as the average (0.010), so the measurement is poorly reproducible. 

There are two aspects to cocoa butter authenticity. First, the butter as sold to the trade for chocolate production may be of an inferior quality and/or identity to that claimed by the producer. In this situation the consumer will also be misled as a matter of consequence. Second, part of the cocoa butter component of chocolate may be replaced by non-cocoa fats in contravention of legislation or labelling. Whilst this is in the strictest terms an adulteration of the chocolate product the issue has long been discussed in terms of cocoa butter authenticity and will be given due attention in this chapter. 

Vegetable Butters Most fats/oils derived from vegetable sources are liquid, reflecting the unsaturated nature of most of their component acids. The few that are sohd (i.e., have melting points above ambient temperature) are known as butters. The best-known and most important member of this class is cocoa butter (Section 5.2), which is the major or only, fat component in chocolate. Others discussed in Section 6 include iUipe butter (Borneo tallow), kokum butter, mango kernel fat, sal fat, and shea butter. These along with palm oil are, in some countries, permitted replacements, in part, for cocoa butter in chocolate (20, 21). 

The results and discussion presented here focus on two major points which are (i) the number of phases coexisting in the CB such as it is found in tempered chocolate and (ii) the liquid crystalline nature of the variety obtained from rapid quenching of CB. A more detailed reexamination of CB polymorphism is given in Reference 4. 

Microscopes play a big role in the examples of identification we discuss below -starch grains from South America from early domesticates plants, the introduction of the sweet potato, an important crop, to the islands of the Pacific, and the fine details of floor sediments in prehistoric British Columbia. Finally, a GC/MS identifies chocolate as the contents of ceramic cups found in ancient New Mexico. 

Relative to most other techniques discussed in this book, NMR has found a limited number of niche applications in food analysis. For example, the determination of oils is seeds (or fat in chocolate ), based upon low resolution, solid phase NMR is well used in quality control laboratories. Actually, most apphcations that found their way in food analysis are methods based upon the differences in relaxation times of various molecules e.g. free water molecules versus bound water molecules). Consequently, for the purpose of this particular chapter, we shall discuss only two specific applications of NMR to food analysis. These examples were chosen solely to demonstrate the broad range of applications that NMR can cover and the reader is advised that the mere fact that they were selected here should not be interpreted as a judgement of their value over other related references. 

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In some situations demulsifiers have been used to inhibit emulsification (97). Demulsifiers used as inhibitors (1) in emulsification was considered in the prevention of chocolate mousse formation for oil spills (1, 268, 269). This topic has received considerable attention as increased environmental concerns demanded clean up of oil spills. Consequently, technology and chemical demulsifiers have been developed to address sea spills. However, discussion of this... 

Chapters 18—25 are related in that they discuss aspects of crude oil-based emulsions. The topic of environmental emulsions is covered by Fingas, Fieldhouse, and MuIIin. They analyze in depth the emulsification and stabilization processes in oil spills. These processes are crucial because they complicate the removal and treatment of these so-called mousses or chocolate mousses. Natural forces in the form of wind and waves are important mechanisms for the formation of the oil-spill emulsions. Most likely, the stabilization of the formed dispersions is due to naturally occurring components such as asphaltenes and resins. The authors give a comprehensive analysis of different kinds of oil spills with regard to stability and rheological properties. 

This chapter first presents the principles of FP, before the main methodological points are illustrated through a simple example of a description of dark chocolates. Further methodological issues will then be discussed and additional guidelines are... 

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