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Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology

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utter with up to 5% of another fat with similar fatty acid <strong>and</strong> triacylglycerol composition<br />

taken from a prescribed list of tropical fats (39,40). This represents about<br />

15% of the fat phase. The permitted tropical fats come from palm, illipe, shea, sal,<br />

kokum, <strong>and</strong> mango <strong>and</strong> may be used in a fractionated form (Table 12).<br />

Milk chocolate contains between 3.5% <strong>and</strong> 9% of milk fat, <strong>and</strong> white chocolate<br />

is based on sugar <strong>and</strong> cocoa liquor <strong>and</strong> cocoa butter. If the latter is not entirely<br />

refined than it will retain some of the flavor normally associated with chocolate.<br />

Chocolate normally contains up to 0.4% of lecithin, usually from soybeans. This<br />

aids the processing of the chocolate by reducing the viscosity of molten chocolate.<br />

Polyglycerol ricinoleate is sometimes added to to optimize viscosity.<br />

Cocoa butter alternatives (CBAs) is a general name covering cocoa butter<br />

equivalents (CBEs), cocoa butter improvers (CBIs), cocoa butter replacers (CBRs)<br />

<strong>and</strong> cocoa butter substitutes (CBSs) (36–38).<br />

CBEs have the same general chemical composition <strong>and</strong> hence the same physical<br />

properties as cocoa butter <strong>and</strong> include the tropical oils described above <strong>and</strong><br />

sometimes designated as hard butters. These can be blended to give mixtures of POP,<br />

POSt, <strong>and</strong> StOSt very similar to cocoa butter <strong>and</strong> fully miscible with it. The level<br />

at which cocoa butter can be replaced by a CBE is limited on a legal basis <strong>and</strong> not<br />

on a functional basis. CBEs must be compatible with cocoa butter by virtue of their<br />

similar fatty acid <strong>and</strong> triacylglycerol composition, have a melting range equivalent<br />

to that of cocoa butter, yield the � polymorph when processed <strong>and</strong> tempered in the<br />

same way as cocoa butter, <strong>and</strong> give a product that is at least as good as cocoa butter<br />

with respect to bloom. The market for CBEs in those European countries where their<br />

use in chocolate is permitted is estimated to be 20,000–25,000 metric tonnes, but it<br />

could rise to three times this level if all European Union (EU) countries accepted<br />

their use as legal.<br />

CBRs are usually based on vegetable oils (soybean, cottonseed, palm) that have<br />

been fractionated <strong>and</strong> partially hydrogenated. They contain trans unsaturated acids<br />

at levels up to 60% <strong>and</strong> have a different triacylglycerol composition from cocoa<br />

butter. They do not require tempering but should be compatible with cocoa butter.<br />

CBSs are usually based on lauric fats. They share some of the physical properties<br />

of cocoa butter but have a different composition. Coatings based on CBS fats<br />

do not require to be tempered but are used in the molten state for enrobing. They<br />

give a superior gloss <strong>and</strong> have very sharp melting characteristics. Further information<br />

is given in Refs. 41–43.<br />

Table 12 Typical Triacylglycerol Composition of Cocoa Butter <strong>and</strong> Some Fractions Used<br />

as Permitted Partial Replacers<br />

Cocoa<br />

butter<br />

Palm<br />

midfraction Illipe<br />

Shea<br />

stearin<br />

Sal<br />

stearin<br />

Mango kernel<br />

stearin<br />

POP 16 43 7 1 2 3<br />

POSt 38 8 31 10 13 15<br />

StOSt 23 1 50 66 64 65<br />

Total 77 52 88 77 60 83<br />

Copyright 2002 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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