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[[File:Chocolate.jpg|thumb|White chocolate is marketed by confectioners and chocolatiers alongside [[milk chocolate]] and [[dark chocolate]].]] |
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''' White chocolate''' is a confectionery derivative of [[chocolate]]. It commonly consists of [[cocoa butter]], [[sucrose|sugar]], [[milk]] solids and salt, and is characterized by a pale yellow or ivory appearance. The melting point of cocoa butter, its primary cacao bean component, is high enough to keep white chocolate solid at [[room temperature]], yet low enough to allow white chocolate to melt in the mouth. |
''' White chocolate''' is a confectionery derivative of [[chocolate]], but is not fucking chocolate. It commonly consists of [[cocoa butter]], [[sucrose|sugar]], [[milk]] solids and salt, and is characterized by a pale yellow or ivory appearance. The melting point of cocoa butter, its primary cacao bean component, is high enough to keep white chocolate solid at [[room temperature]], yet low enough to allow white chocolate to melt in the mouth. |
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==Composition and regulations== |
==Composition and regulations== |
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Revision as of 05:59, 20 July 2011
White chocolate is a confectionery derivative of chocolate, but is not fucking chocolate. It commonly consists of cocoa butter, sugar, milk solids and salt, and is characterized by a pale yellow or ivory appearance. The melting point of cocoa butter, its primary cacao bean component, is high enough to keep white chocolate solid at room temperature, yet low enough to allow white chocolate to melt in the mouth.
Composition and regulations
Despite its moniker, white chocolate is, by definition, not chocolate as it does not contain cocoa solids, the primary nutritional constituent of chocolate liquor. During the manufacturing process, the dark-colored solids of the cacao bean are separated from its fatty content (as with milk, semi-sweet, and dark chocolate), but unlike conventional chocolates the cocoa solids are not later recombined. As a result, white chocolate does not contain the antioxidant properties or many characterizing ingredients of chocolate, such as thiamine, riboflavin, theobromine, phenylethylamine, and serotonin. [1] Often, the cocoa butter is deodorized to remove its strong and undesirable taste that would negatively affect the flavor of the finished product.[2] Regulations also govern what may be marketed as "white chocolate": In the United States, since 2004, white chocolate must be (by weight) at least 20% cocoa butter, 14% total milk solids, and 3.5% milk fat, and no more than 55% sugar or other sweeteners.[3] Before this date, U.S. firms required temporary marketing permits to sell white chocolate. The European Union has adopted the same standards, except that there is no limit on sugar or sweeteners.[4] Although white chocolate is made the same way as milk chocolate and dark chocolate, it lacks cocoa paste, liquor or powder. Some preparations that may be confused with white chocolate (known as confectioner's coating, summer coating, or Almond bark) are made from inexpensive solid or hydrogenated vegetable and animal fats, and as such, are not at all derived from cocoa. These preparations may actually be white (in contrast to white chocolate's ivory shade[2]) and will lack cocoa butter's flavor.
Psychoactive properties
White chocolate contains the least amount of cocoa solids, therefore it contains less theobromine than other chocolates.[5]
White chocolate contains only trace amounts of caffeine that is present in cocoa solids.
References
- ^ "Theobroma cacao L." Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ^ a b "The World's Best White Chocolate Page 3: Percent Cacao & Cocoa Butter". The Nibble. Lifestyle Direct. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
- ^ "Standard of Identity for White Chocolate". Food and Drug Administration (United States). July 17, 2008. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
- ^ "Directive 2000/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 June 2000 relating to cocoa and chocolate products intended for human consumption". Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ^ Kummer, Corby (December 21, 1988). "America Is Going Sweet on White Chocolate". New York Times. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
