Why is there no vegan "milk" chocolate?!
Why is there no vegan "milk" chocolate?
Can't you just add soymilk to dark chocolate or something like that?
Answers:
There are a couple of 'problem areas' with making a vegan milk chocolate. From a technical standpoint it's very hard to get the chocolate to temper correctly (which effects the texture. If you'd like detailed information ask the question with my friends at the first link. You'll find that the Terra chocolates are either much darker than something like a Nestle or Hershey bar or that they do in fact contain dairy ingredients!
The really serious problem is that (at least in the US) it's illegal! The USDA has *very* strict standards as to what you can put into chocolate and to 'do an end run' through the FDA requires listing as a "dietetic" food which requires expensive safety testing. The USDA now allows vegan chocolate to be sold *only* if you license and use their food additive "NuTrim". Search the second link if you're interested.
I first tried to gain approval to sell vegan "Not Milk"(TM) in the late '70s and was turned down. In the '80s when we tried; we also distributed samples of our product and were arrested for "Distributing Adulterated Food Products". In the '90s they cracked a little bit and said we could sell the stuff but only if the front label stated in large print "IMITATION ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED CHOCOLATE SUBSTITUTE" and on the back label listed WARNING: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS ARTIFICIAL DAIRY INGREDIENTS". I've been kicked out of several congresscritters offices also
The dairy industry currently sells about 12% of their milk for chocolate. They have a *huge* influence in Washington and that's the reason you aren't going to see those rules relax much!
Oh; I've got marketing research to show there would be a heavy demand for this kind of thing but you'll never see it (unless you're on my Xmas list
Source(s):
http://www.cookingforengineers.com...
http://www.usda.gov
Maybe the vegan milk chocolate market isn't large enough to justify an entire formula and factory dedicated to that.
sure.. if u want it to taste like anus
I'm no vegan. That's what happens when you become a vegan ... you don't get all that stuff you really want like milk chocolate. I doubt a chocolate making company would go to all that effort to please the small percentage of vegans out there.
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There is totally vegan milk chocolate! A brand called Terra Nostra makes one with rice milk, and there are others. Check Whole Foods, I'm sure they have a selection.
I doubt that there would enough people around who would be willing to buy it! No profit margin...:D
silk soy milk makes a chocolate and a coffee flavor.
the chocolate is delicouls it tastes like chocolate ice cream.
and the coffee is great too.
it is available in the market-
kitkat milk chocolate also-cadburry milk chocolate
In Australia there is a fresh soy chocolate 'milk' and it's damn tasty.
Grr, I get cross at ignorant people who assume because you are vegan you 'have' to miss out on food.
I 'choose' to, not 'have to'. If you like drinking milk from cows, so be it, I like drinking milk from soy beans!
I've added soymilk to dark chocolate! You can make some delicious fudge! :]
well chocolate..isnt vegan.