Chocolate product

As a chocolate product ( English chocolate product , French produit de chocolat ) refers to types of chocolate and products derived therefrom. The term is sometimes used synonymously for cocoa products . The raw material is the cocoa beans from the fruits of the cocoa tree .

Legal Regulations

The Directive 2000/36 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 June 2000 relating to cocoa and chocolate products intended for human consumption for the Member States of the European Union regulates the ingredients and labeling of cocoa and chocolate products.

Germany

The Cocoa Ordinance regulates the ingredients and labeling of cocoa and chocolate products that are commercially marketed as food.

Classification

• Semi-finished products from cocoa beans and cocoa butter
• Types of chocolate
  • Chocolate powder , drinking chocolate powder
  • Chocolate , milk chocolate , household milk chocolate , white chocolate , filled chocolate
  • Chocolate a la taza , Chocolate familiar a la taza
  • Praline

This also includes:

• Solid cocoa products, hollow chocolate bodies
• Chocolate sprinkles, chocolate flakes, chocolate couverture (also from milk chocolate)
• Gianduja - hazelnut chocolate
• Cream milk chocolate , skimmed milk chocolate

• Fine chocolate , dark chocolate

Austria

The Chocolate Ordinance regulates it accordingly for Austria. Chocolate sweets are treated as pralines there .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Directive 2000/36 / EC . In: OJ. No. L 197, August 3, 2000.
2. ^ Text of the cocoa regulation
3. ↑ ^{a b} Markus Fischer, Marcus A. Glomb (ed.): Modern food chemistry . Behr's Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89947-864-8 , pp. 445–448 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Appendix 1 (to §§ 1, 2, 3) of the Cocoa Ordinance
5. ↑ Ingrid Kaufmann-Horlacher: Cocoa products. Baden-Württemberg - The inspection offices for food monitoring and animal health, accessed on November 22, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Legal text of the Austrian Chocolate Ordinance