Chocolate is chocolate, right?
In fact, the chocolate that we eat is a combination of cocoa or cacao with cocoa butter, sugar, and possibly other ingredients as well. Common additions are lecithin, a natural emulsifier, and vanillin or other flavors. Milk chocolate of course also contains milk.
The ingredients are "conched", which is to say they are blended in a special machine, to create eating chocolate.
In the United States, anything containing at least 10% cocoa can be described as "chocolate." However, fine milk chocolate may contain 50% cocoa, and dark chocolate can be as much as 99% cocoa.
Anything with less than 10% cocoa must be called "chocolaty" or "chocolate flavored" or "chocolate taste." Foods using these descriptions may contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils in place of cocoa butter, whey products in place of milk, or corn syrup in place of sugar.
We don't call them real chocolate. Our products, on the other hand, are all made of real chocolate.
