Cocoa Butter

Cocoa Butter

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Over half of the cured, dried pods
weight is mad up of fat, this
total fluctuates with the
different varieties and the
growing conditions. This fat is
called cacao butter or cocoa
butter, what is left are the
solids that are called cocoa.
Because of its many uses, cocoa
butter is a highly valuable
commodity; it is used for making
chocolate but is also used in
cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
Cocoa butter has the added
qualities of a melting point that
is slightly lower than the human
body temperature and takes a very
long time to go bad.
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The intentions of the manufacturer
have a great deal to do with the
quality of chocolate, if the goal
is fine chocolate, it will contain
up to 70 percent cacao solids. In
addition, other quality chocolate
that is being processed will be
added to it. Otherwise what is
provided is what is called junk
chocolate which contains about 15
% cacao solids.
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Cookbooks in the 18th and 19th
centuries warned us of additions
made to chocolate to replace the
cacao solids, these included brick
dust and red lead. Cheaper sweet
almond oil, lard and even marrow
were used as substitutions for the
cocoa butter, while the quality
cocoa butter was sold elsewhere.
We can be assured that there is no
brick dust or red lead in the
chocolate we buy today!
Along with the fat the cacao bean
contains protein and starch, but
the percentage of these are less
than 10 percent by weight.
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White chocolate is made out of
cacao butter only and has no cacao
solids, in the United States it
had to go by the name "white
confectionary coating" because it
did not meet the requirements for
being chocolate. White chocolate
does not have the shelf life of
dark chocolate, and it also tends
to pick up flavors from things it
is stored around.
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