Some informative Facts about Chocolate and its Varieties

Chocolate, as we know sweet and lovable products, everyone friendly with any form like chocolate candy and drink. Chocolate is making from long refining process like fermented, dried, roasted and grounded.  Chocolate varieties make a distinction according cocoa butter and liquor amount. And other ingredients are varying according taste.  The Brief description will make known you with some of the most common chocolate flavors.

Cocoa Powder: Cocoa powder is light brown powder have strong chocolate taste with slightly acidic quality.  After alkalization cocoa powder become dark in color and less acidic with milder chocolate taste. Cocoa powder used in many recipes.

Unsweetened chocolate: It also known "bitter" an unsweetened. It smells like pure chocolate, it contains equal butter solid and liquor.  Unsweetened chocolate has a deep, rich chocolate flavor.

Dark chocolate:  dark chocolate contain main ingredients cocoa butter, chocolate liquor, sugar and vanilla.  It is dark because no milk content added and 30% to 80% cocoa content add. Bittersweet chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate also exist in dark category but cocoa amount differentiate it.

Bittersweet chocolate: it contain less than 40% cocoa solid and but cocoa liquor amount varies 50 to 70%. Its taste is bitter than sweet dark or semi-sweet chocolate bar. Sugar amount not constant in it many time bittersweet chocolate sweeter than semi-sweet bar.

Semi-sweet chocolate:semi sweet chocolate sweeter than bittersweet and darker than sweet dark chocolate

Sweet dark chocolate:  It does not contain milk content but it still has high amount of sugar and is sweeter than other types of dark chocolate and contain 20-40% cocoa solids.

Milk chocolate: it contain cocoa liquor, cocoa solid with milk liquor and condensed. Milk chocolate contains up to 10% chocolate liquor, butterfat and milk solids. It is sweeter than dark chocolate with lighter color.  It requires more temper to heat properly.

White Chocolate: White Chocolate does not contain lesser cocoa content but have vanilla, sugar and cocoa butter. White Chocolate have more 50% sugar, milk content and lesser amount of cocoa butter.

After all these varieties I am telling about some good chocolate facts that not only interesting but full of knowledge also.

1.       You know that one cup of coffee contain higher amount of caffeine than 10 -12 chocolate bars.  Chocolate is rich source of energy, a single chocolate chips provides more energy than 5 to 6 glass of juice.

2.       After deep research it proves that every adult person required up to 12 pounds of chocolate for keep healthy.

3.       If you have pet dog then never give him chocolate because it's "Theobromine" ingredient harmful to his nervous system and can be proves deadly.

4.       After general calculation people spend more than 7 billion dollar on chocolates yearly. Baking chocolate and cocoa have 10% of iron amount of daily recommendation.