Outline of chocolate

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chocolate:

Chocolate – raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree.^[1] The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to improve the flavor. Chocolate is a popular ingredient in confectionery items and candies.

Nature

Chocolate is a type of:

• Food – substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body, ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, and/or stimulate growth.
  • Confectionery – the set of food items that are rich in sugar, any one or type of which is called a confection. Modern usage may include substances rich in artificial sweeteners as well.
    • Candy – confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added. Candies come in numerous colors and varieties and have a long history in popular culture.
  • Ingredient – substance that forms part of a mixture (in a general sense). For example, in cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a specific dish. Chocolate is often used as an ingredient in desert items, such as cakes and cookies.

Ingredients

Necessary ingredients

• Cocoa bean - the primary ingredient which characterizes chocolate
  • Chocolate liquor or mass - ground or melted state of the nib of the cacao bean
  • Cocoa butter - the fat component
  • Cocoa solids, the nonfat part of the cacao bean which is ground into cocoa powder ^[2]

Substances found in cocao

• Antioxidants –
  • Flavonols –
  • Catechins –
• Caffeine - psychoactive stimulant drug found in coffee
• Phenethylamine - psychoactive drug that is usually inactive when orally ingested because most of it is metabolized into phenylacetic acid by monoamine oxidase (MAO), preventing significant concentrations from reaching the brain^[3][4]
• Theobromine - also known as xantheose,^[5] it contains no bromine ^[6] and has a similar, but lesser, effect to caffeine
• Theophylline - methylxanthine drug found in tea leaves

Source of the cocao bean

^[7]

• Cacao tree^[8] –
  • Forastero – 80% made with this tree group
  • Criollo – 10% made with this tree group
    • Cocoa bean –
• Côte d'Ivoire –
  • Cocoa production in Côte d'Ivoire – accounts for 43% of cocoa
• Children in cocoa production –

Optional ingredients

• Lecithin –
• Vanilla –
• Sugar –
• Milk –

Ingredients of white chocolate

• White chocolate – Contains the same ingredients as chocolate but lack cocoa solids.^[9]

Types

• Unsweetened chocolate - pure chocolate liquor mixed with fat to produce a solid substance; also known as "bitter", "baking chocolate" and "cooking chocolate"^[10]
• Dark chocolate –
• Milk chocolate –
• Semisweet chocolate –
• Bittersweet chocolate –
• Couverture –
• White chocolate –
• Cocoa powder –
• Compound chocolate –
• Dutch process chocolate –
• Scho-Ka-Kola – a chocolate brand containing coffee and cola nut^[11]

Production methods

• Broma process –
• Dutch process chocolate –

Producers and trade organizations

• International Cocoa Initiative –
• Cocoa Processing Company Limited – a Ghanaian cocoa processing company
• Kuapa Kokoo – a Ghanaian farmers' cooperative organisation
• Grenada Chocolate Company – an organic cooperative in Grenada (tree-to-bar).
• List of bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturers

Brands

• List of chocolate bar brands

Comestibles

• Chocolate pudding –
• Chocolate syrup –
• Chocolate cake –
  • German chocolate cake –
  • Wacky cake –
  • Devil's food cake –
• Cookies – (see also: List of cookies)
  • Chocolate chip –
  • Chocolate biscuit –
  • Chocolate chip cookie –
  • Black and white cookie –
  • Afghan biscuit – a traditional New Zealand biscuit^[12]
  • Chocolate brownie –
• Chocolate spread –
• Confectionery –
  • Chocolate truffle –
  • Chocolate crackles –
  • Choco Pie –
  • Rum ball –
• Chocolates –
  • Swiss chocolate –
  • Mint chocolate –
  • Chocolate money –
• Desserts –
  • Molten chocolate cake –
  • Chocolate salami –
• Ice cream –
  • Mint Chocolate Chip –
  • Chocolate Chip –
• Candy –
  • Chocolate bar –
  • Chocolate-coated raisin –
  • Chocolate-coated peanut –
  • Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats –
• Cereals – (see also: List of breakfast cereals):
  • Cocoa Frosted Flakes –
  • Cocoa Puffs –
  • Cocoa Krispies –
  • Cookie Crisp –
• Brand names:
  • Death by Chocolate –

Drinks

• Cafe mocha –
• Chocolate milk –
  • Swiss Miss –
  • Nesquik –
  • Banania –
  • Yoo-hoo –
• Crème de cacao –
• Hot chocolate –

History

Effects on health

See Chocolate: Health

• Theobromine poisoning –

Other articles

• United States military chocolate –
• Couverture chocolate –
• Chocolate fountain –
• Compound chocolate –
• Chocolate agar – named for its color, does not contain cocoa
• Chocolate spread –
• Modeling chocolate –
• Minstrels (chocolate) –
• Freddo Frog –

References

External links

• This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
• A Visual Taxonomy Of Every Chocolate Candy, Ever
• Outline of chocolate at the Open Directory Project
• Glossary of Chocolate Terms
•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Chocolate". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa – Freely downloadable book from Project Gutenberg

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