Chocolate requirements

Smaller particles in the chocolate requires more cocoa butter to coat the solid surfaces. It is the excess cocoa butter between the solid particles that allows chocolate to flow. 

White Chocolate. There is at present no standard of identity in the United States for white chocolate. Virtually all current uses of the term white chocolate do not meet the standards for chocolate, which prescribes the presence of ground cacao nibs. This restrictive requirement has acted as a practical deterrent to companies developing and marketing white chocolate-type products in the United States. When such products have been introduced and marketed in the United States, companies have had to label them with fanciful names to avoid the standardized labeling issues. In other countries where a standard of identity for white chocolate exists and where a minimum amount of cocoa butter is required by law, consumers have available to them a variety of easily recognizable products. 

The amount of lecithin required falls within a narrow range of about 0.2—0.6% (27). It can have a substantial effect on the amount of cocoa butter used, reducing the final fat content of chocolate by as much as 5%. Because cocoa butter is usually the most costly ingredient in the formulation of chocolate, the savings to a large manufacturer can be substantial. 

Apphcations requiring accurate temperature control are generally limited to electric tracing. For example chocolate lines cannot be exposed to steam temperatures or the product will degrade and if caustic soda is heated ove 150°F it becomes extremely corrosive to carbon steel pipes. 

Other dietary factors that may influence overall caffeine consumption include foods that contain cocoa or chocolate, such as candies and sweets. These products do not contribute as much caffeine as either coffee or tea however, their contribution to caffeine exposure should be recognized. Caffeine may also be in foods and beverages as an additive, which the Food and Drug Administration monitors and requires to be labeled on the product. 

The coating prevents contact between the cone and the ice cream, thereby preventing the migration of water. Such a chocolate flavoured coating meets the required criteria, it is edible, effective and it adds to the attractiveness of the product. 

The mechanism of the scaling of iron is so complex as to require special mention. Above 570 °C, wiistite (Fei xO) is thermodynamically stable and forms the relatively thick basal layer in the oxide film. This is followed by a magnetite (FesCU) layer which is followed by a final layer of Fe2C>3. Magnetite itself tends to become nonstoichiometric under oxidizing conditions, with excess Fe3+, so that its composition and color can vary from Fe3.oooC>4 (black) toward cubic Fe2.667 04 (i.e., 7-Fe203, chocolate brown). Thus, as outlined in Section 4.6, the oxidation of iron above 570 °C involves mainly... 

The type (e.g., liquid, solid, powder, gel, syrup, emulsion, granule) and range of food samples (raw ingredients to final products) for water activity measurement are immense. The amount of sample required for measurement is typically 5 to 10 ml. A homogeneous and representative sample should be prepared and placed into the sample cup. For the majority of samples, no preparation is necessary the sample is simply placed into the cup. Multicomponent (e.g., muffin with raisins or pizza) and coated samples (e.g., breaded foods or chocolate-covered bar) may have to be sliced, crushed, or ground in order to obtain a representative sample. If sample preparation is necessary, then a consistent technique must be used with each sample to ensure reproducible results. 

For those foods and beverages which require a chocolate flavor, without the added bulk of cocoa or the fat of chocolate, the flavor... 

With interest, those cookies would now be worth a lot more than 2 o I never stopped bakirg them, although I charged the recipe because I always found them too sweet and not chocolatp enough. I find them morefiavorful than standard chocolate-chip cookies, although thy do require a few extra steps to make them extra-delicious. 

This is an adaptation of a chocolate plastique recipe I learned in one of my master cake-decorating classes. With an elastic texture and a taste similar to that of Tootsie Rolls, the dough rolls out thin, so it s easy to cut out shapes with cookie cutters or to make animals, robots, or any other figures, such asfowers and balls. Although the dough is easy to make, it will require a little muscle strength to knead it at first. 

Special flavor formation for crumb chocolate takes place in the plant shown schematically in Fig. 14.28, left. In this system, so-called Maillard reactions between amino acids and reducing sugars occur in 1 to 2 minutes at 130°C, producing the classic flavors usually found in Great Britain, Scandinavia, and Japan. The process requires a few percent of moisture, which is added separately and removed in the vacuum after the reaction. The ZSK process saves on expensive vacuum dryers requiring several hours residence time. 

Cocoa butters have a natural variation in physical properties related to the triacylglycerol structure Malaysian, Indian and Indonesian butters are harder than those from Africa, and Brazilian butters are the softest. The hardness of typical butters from some continents has changed over the years (Timms and Stewart, 1999). Because the hardness affects the processing required for chocolate manufacture, suppliers of cocoa butter to that trade blend butters to attempt to produce a uniform product. 

Non-cocoa fats are added to certain chocolates for a number of reasons. Their introduction was prompted by a sharp rise in the cost of cocoa butter in the 1960s which coincided with the emergence of technologies suitable to analyse butter composition and produce substitute fats. Principally, chocolate manufacture can be made more economical by using more stable processing conditions when other fats are added. The variations in processing required by changes in the chemical composition and physical properties of different batches of cocoa butters, and the effects of erratic harvests, can be ameliorated by the incorporation of the tailored non-cocoa fats. 

Some degree of enforcement of the rule permitting the addition of up to 5% non-cocoa vegetable fats in chocolate may be based on inspection of factories, recipes and supply records. However, to obtain conclusive evidence of fraudulent addition of non-cocoa fats, a reliable method is required to quantify added fats in chocolate. 

Future authenticity testing of cocoa butter and chocolate products is likely to follow defined paths. To assure the authenticity of cocoa butters databases of the composition of the relevant fats will be required, constructed from a statistically significantly number of samples of proven provenance and processing history. Analyses must be carried out using internationally validated methods and characterized reference materials by a number of respected laboratories. Scientific co-operation within the European Union is beginning to develop such approaches in ensuring the authenticity of other foods such as olive oil. 

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The centres of these products are normally made as a continuous rope, either with the components previously mixed together or deposited as layers in the case where there is a layer of caramel, the caramel passes from the cooker to a cooling drum which cools the caramel to an appropriate temperature, satisfying the requirements mentioned above if the caramel is to be mixed with other ingredients, e.g. nuts, they are mixed prior to depositing. The rope of product is then cut into pieces and cooled as necessary prior to being coated with chocolate. 

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