Category: Chocolate
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Is White Chocolate Actually Chocolate?
White chocolate – it always makes an appearance over the holidays in coffee shops and on our desserts, but is white chocolate actually chocolate? The truth is that true white chocolate is something of a distant relative to the dark, bittersweet chocolate currently in the spotlight. These milky white bars are not as mysterious as…
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What is Cacao Juice?
Most of us already know that cacao fruit are used to create one of the world’s favorite guilty pleasures – chocolate. But have you heard of cacao juice? This delicious drink is made from the bean’s pulp and can be used to improve the sustainability of cacao farming. Cacao juice is an emerging product that…
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The New Pink Chocolate Called Ruby Chocolate
We’ve all heard of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. But pink chocolate? Well now that’s a thing, too. Barry Callebaut, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cocoa products, announced its latest invention on September 5, 2017. The Swiss company unveiled the fourth type of “naturally colored chocolate”, Ruby, more than 80 years after inventing…
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Cacao vs Cocoa
Everybody has heard of cocoa, but is it the same as cacao? Isn’t it the same thing? Well, kind of. In the industry when referring to the raw materials that will become chocolate, the terms are used interchangeably. However, there is a bit of a difference, which we break down for you here below. The…
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How To Decipher Cacao Percentages
Today’s chocolate has certainly evolved. Clever packaging aside, many consumers choose their chocolate of choice mainly based on cacao percentages. The percentage is often easily discerned through the bold statement on the front of the package letting you know exactly how much cacao you can expect in your chocolate bar. But what does it really…