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5 Trashy Ingredients that are Added to Your Chocolate
5 trashy ingredients that are added to your chocolate; just what is being added to your favourite chocolate bars to keep them so cheap and addictive?
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Chocolate.
Cocoa mass, cocoa butter, and a little sugar. These are the ingredients that created the first chocolate bars that Europeans fell in love with.
Of course, chocolate in the form of natural raw and roasted cacao had been enjoyed by Southern American civilisations for hundreds of years before this. These ancient people believed in the healing and strengthening powers of the cacao bean. They had been consuming it as a strong bitter drink long before travelling Europeans ever had a taste, let alone had a chance to mass produce it into a titan of confectionary.
For many years, cocoa was enjoyed on European soil as a beverage, before being turned into something closer to the bars we know today. Over time, new ingredients were added to make the bars more palatable and to make them more affordable as consumer demand surged. Sugar was becoming cheaper and more readily available, perhaps this will help the product go further? Why not add some milk to appeal to mothers of young children?
