My Chocolate Journal - Blog

I read an interesting topic over at http://www.egullet.com/ today (http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=101043).

The FDA is talking about changing the definition for "chocolate" to include "confectionery coatings" where the manufacture replaces up to 100% of the cocoa butter with other fats including vegetable oils.

This scares me. Without cocoa butter, chocolate just isn't chocolate! Cocoa butter is responsible for that smooth melt right as a great piece of couverture hits your tongue. Vegetable oil formulas just don't have that and should not be called chocolate!

Visit http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/whatsthisabout.asp to tell the FDA not to mess with our chocolate!