How Black Chocolate and White Chocolate Appeared


When chocolate drinks were popular , a chocolate drink block appeared. It is said that this was first invented by Lascaux, a Spanish businessman who successfully operated a chocolate drink trader. It’s very troublesome to cook. Therefore, he felt that if he could finish the birthday cake and want to eat it, he could carry it with him, sometimes breaking it at any time. When he wanted to drink, he could easily make up for it by taking some stagnant water and flushing it with water. After many methods and novel attempts, through the interpretation and contrast of the chocolate drink, we can finally deduce the chocolate block of expression.

In 1826, a Dutchman Van Hoten succeeded in absorbing the extraction method to separate the cocoa butter from the cocoa beans, and crushed the fine cocoa mass to produce cocoa powder. In 1847, someone added cocoa butter and sugar to chocolate drinks and successfully produced instant chocolates, ready-to-pack chocolate bars.

In 1875, the Swiss added milk to chocolate to make milk chocolate with a softer texture and a lighter taste. After that, this kind of chocolate was mass-produced and became an important variety of chocolate, and Switzerland also became a country of chocolate.

According to different ingredients, chocolate is divided into dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate, and the color ranges from dark to light. Dark chocolate usually has high cocoa powder content, low sugar content, and bitter taste; white chocolate is not a real chocolate because it does not contain cocoa powder, but is a mixture of cocoa butter, sugar and milk; milk chocolate is added Milk ingredients.