Is there any chocolate products that don't have any dairy products in them?!
so why is it that every product that has chocolate there dairy products
I thought dairy products were neccessary to make chocolate
I'm a little confused
Answers: from what I understand, chocolate is made from cocoa beans
so why is it that every product that has chocolate there dairy products
I thought dairy products were neccessary to make chocolate
I'm a little confused
Dairy products are not necessary to make chocolate. The essential ingredient is cocoa beans.
Whole Foods carries lots of vegan chocolate.
Check these out:
http://www.veganchocolate.com/
Dark chocolate is made without milk ingredients. A lot of people actually don't like chocolate but do like sugar so that's why milk chocolate was invented.
Chocolate is different than cocoa beans. Cocoa is just the main ingredient in what is most commonly identified as chocolate.
I think the easiest way to find non dairy chocolate is to look for certified kosher pareve.
Not all chocolate products have dairy in them; take junior mints for example, they have unsweetened chocolate and no dairy at all. Dark chocolate doesn't have any milk in it, like the company called Lindt has chocolate bars that are 70% pure cocoa without any milk.
I think they add the milk just to make it more creamier I guess, not rly sure.
Lots of on-line sites--search "vegan chocolate" WITH the quotation marks. http://www.chocolatedecadence.com/
Most dark chocolates are milk free anyway. But I know from personal experience that most chocolates have milk in them because milk is mixed with the cocoa beans (exactly how, I have no idea, but thats usually the way to make chocolate). The site I link as a reference also has some links to dairy-free chocolatiers. Hope this helps!
The aztecs first make chocolate with cocca beans and no dairy until we, europeans came and make something out of it so we add dairy products. You could go to a store (DO NOT GO TO WAL MART) and ask for non-dairy chocolate or you can make your own.
requirements: raw cocoa beans, which can be found through many online sites.
Beans need to be roasted by spreading them in a single layer on a pan, and leaving them in the oven for approximately 30 minutes at 400F degrees. Allow them to cool, and then peel off the husks, which is a really fiddly job. Next break them up. Spreading them on tea towel then break them with a mortar and pestle. When done with that clean pepper or other mill and grind them. Be careful though, because as the bits get smaller, they tend to liquefy. Grind just to the point where you can put them back in a dish and use the mortar and pestle again for the final mashing which looks mushy.Heat the dish in a pan of water, and then grind a little more in the mortar. It should have reached a fairly smooth consistency after this stage. Now you can add a drop of mint flavoring, and your sugar.Put 1/2 cup sugar per pound of cocoa beans but you may want to start out with less, in order to see how sweet it gets. Pour into molds, and you have pure chocolate.
Whole Foods has a whole section for chocolate bars, many of them vegan. I've been buying a brand called Chocolate Bar (easy to remember I suppose!) and it's quite good. They claim to practice fair trade and buy from eco-friendly farms in South America, and also donate some profits to species protection. I recommend them!
There are several brands that have choices for vegans. My favorite one is Endangered Species and their website is chocolatebar.com
A few others are:
Lindt chocolate: lindt.com
Green and Black: greenandblack.com
Ghiradelli: ghiradelli.com
You can usually find these brands at Target, Whole Foods and stores owned by the Kroger company. Not all of the chocolate listed above is vegan so check the labels before you buy.
Yeah, there is some that you can buy online and probably at whole foods. Here are 2 sites:
http://veganstore.com
http://www.veganessentials.com/
Only milk (and white) chocolate has milk in it, hence the name milk chocolate. Dark chocolate, except Cadbury's Bournville, does not contain milk.