by Bennett Gordon in UTNE
Tags: Science and Technology, Environment, health, chocolate, food, The Smart Set
Hershey’s chocolates, for the most part, aren’t really chocolate. They’re “the terrible bastard children of chocolate and corporate frugality,” according to Meg Favreau, writing for The Smart Set. Hershey’s, and other industrial chocolate makers, mix their real coco butter with other vegetable oils. This makes it cheaper, but it also makes it something other than chocolate. For now, the FDA requires Hershey’s to call its industrial byproducts “chocolate flavored” instead of real chocolate, according to Favreau, though the website refers to the candies as “chocolate bars” and “milk chocolate.” That may change, however, as industry groups lobby the FDA to relax its definition of “chocolate” to include other vegetable oils.
I wish I could find Fazer chocolate here. There was a Scandinavian grocery store in Ballard, which sold Fazer but they are closed now. I can find Marabou at IKEA, but it's a long way to get there...
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