What is milk chocolate made of?!


Question: Milk chocolate is made of sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, milk or milk powder and vanilla.

An interesting side note is that in 2007, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association in the United States, whose members include Hershey, Nestlé, and Archer Daniels Midland, lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to change the legal definition of chocolate to let them substitute partially hydrogenated vegetable oils for cocoa butter in addition to using artificial sweeteners and milk substitutes. Currently, the FDA does not allow a product to be referred to as "chocolate" if the product contains any of these ingredients.

Hopefully, the FDA won't succumb to their lobbying efforts. :D


Answers: Milk chocolate is made of sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, milk or milk powder and vanilla.

An interesting side note is that in 2007, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association in the United States, whose members include Hershey, Nestlé, and Archer Daniels Midland, lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to change the legal definition of chocolate to let them substitute partially hydrogenated vegetable oils for cocoa butter in addition to using artificial sweeteners and milk substitutes. Currently, the FDA does not allow a product to be referred to as "chocolate" if the product contains any of these ingredients.

Hopefully, the FDA won't succumb to their lobbying efforts. :D

Milk chocolate is chocolate with milk powder or condensed milk added.

milk with this powder thing

idk... something addictive i think

Hmm, let me think now. . . . . milk and chocolate?

Chocolate nibs (as all chocolate) with the addition of milk solids. It is much less good for you than dark chocolate which is much higher in helpful flavonoids.

Now, I want some good dark chocolate!

milk and chocolate syrup

Assuming it is quality milk chocolate: Two parts of the cacao bean, the solids and oil usually listed as cocoa solids and cocoa butter. (It is actually incorrect to say it comes from cacao nibs as that is typically a roasted bean part, not a refined cacao solid).

Other than parts of the cacao tree, a quality milk chocolate will only have sugar and of course milk (usually in powder form). Some will add vanilla. Nothing else is required or should be in a milk chocolate.





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