Production of Chocolates
Chocolate is the world’s most famous and desirable sweet used in many edibles such as cakes, candies, chocolate bars, puddings, chocolate brownies, shakes and in many baking products. Almost 1 billion people around the globe consume chocolate per day and statistics tells that each American eat twelve pounds of chocolate per year. Although chocolates are high-calorie product however there are a number of health benefits associated with cocoa which is the main constituent of chocolates. Dark chocolates are anti-oxidants and have active phenolic compounds which are useful to decrease cholesterol level, maintaining blood pressure, prevent stroke and oxidative stress.[1] INTRODUCTION Chocolate is prepared from the ground cacao seeds cultivated from Theobroma cacao and then further processed for the refinement purpose to develop taste. It comes in different types and forms such as cocoa powder, liquid, solid and flavors. Chocolate is derived from the Spanish word xocoatl. There are sev...