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US 5,882,709 AGranted
Process for manufacture of reduced fat and reduced calorie chocolate
AssigneeCadbury Schweppes, PLC
InventorAlbert Zumbe
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Abstract
A process is provided for producing a chocolate composition reduced in fat and calories, which either contains sugar or is free of added sugar, and which has the taste and mouthfeel of traditional chocolate. The process involves developing the chocolate flavour during a normal chocolate-making procedure up to and including conching, and then removing some of the fat, e.g. by means of a cocoa liquor press.
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A process for the manufacture of a reduced fat and reduced calorie final chocolate product comprising the steps of
- (i) mixing together chocolate making ingredients including at least one cocoa ingredient selected from the group consisting of cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, cocoa butter substitutes and non-fat cocoa solids, and at least one sweetener selected from the group of sugar and other sweeteners so as to produce a chocolate composition having a fat content which is higher than that required in the reduced fat chocolate to be manufactured,
- (ii) subjecting said chocolate composition to a flavour development step by conching, and
- (iii) after said conching step, processing said chocolate composition to remove some of the fat from said chocolate composition to reduce the fat content to a level in the range of 7 to 30% by weight in said final chocolate product.
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