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White chocolate is really chocolate! Its main ingredient is cocoa butter. White chocolate is made of cocoa butter, sugar, milk solids, vanilla, and a fatty food additive called lecithin. White chocolate gets most of its flavor from vanilla extract. In the United States, white chocolate must contain at least 20% cocoa fat and at least milkfat. The nutrition label will show if it includes cocoa butter – some cheaper varieties use vegetable oil. Also, white candy melts are not real white chocolate.

All types of chocolate start with cacao beans, the dried and fermented seeds of the cacao tree in South America and West Africa. The

food called lecithin. White chocolate gets vanilla extract. the United white chocolate least 20% least 3 .5% nutrition label cocoa butter – some cheaper use vegetable oil. white candy melts are real white chocolate. types of chocolate with cacao beans, the dried and fermented seeds of the cacao tree in America and West Africa. The difference between white chocolate milk chocolates that any cocoa solids of chocolate its rawest form). chocolate but trace of white cause it to labeled caffeine-free.

main difference between white chocolate and dark and milk chocolates is that white chocolate doesn’t contain any cocoa solids (the non-fatty parts of chocolate in its rawest form). Other types of chocolate are caffeinated, but low trace amounts of caffeine in white chocolate cause it to be labeled caffeine-free. Nestlé was the first to commercially produce white chocolate candy during WorldWar I as a way to use up excess milk powder (milk that was dried to last longer and to transport more easily to troops during the war). The earliest version, in 1936, was called the Galak Bar. The almond-studded Alpine Bar was released in 1948.

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I excess milk powder (milk last longer transport easily to troops during the war). earliest version, 1936, was called GalakBar. almond- Alpine Bar was released in 1948.