What is it about dark chocolate that we enjoy so much? How is dark chocolate made, and what makes it different from milk chocolate and white chocolate? What does cocoa percentage have to do with it? Here are some answers, plus some dark chocolate history and trivia.
Have you always wondered how dark chocolate was made? Actually, the making of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate is the same until the blending step near the end, when extra items are introduced for milk chocolate, or the primary ingredient is removed for white chocolate. Here's how dark chocolate is made, from start to finish.
Many dark chocolate products display a cocoa percentage on their labels. What does this mean? Can you compare two different products with the same percentage? What about products with no percentage listed? Read more about cocoa percentage here.
For almost 3000 years, the only form of chocolate was dark chocolate! And only as a drink! Solid chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate have been around for less than 200 years. Dark chocolate history is the history of chocolate.
Do you know how an insect called a "midge" is critical to the cacao plant? Did you know that money does grow on trees? Who are the biggest chocolate eaters in the world? Learn some dark chocolate trivia here!
Dark Chocolate Life is concerned exclusively with Dark Chocolate, but look at this site for information on many different kinds of chocolate dessert.