Types of Chocolates

February 9th, 2009

There is food, and then there is chocolate. It is this most amazing treat that melts in your mouth and then brings a big old smile onto your face. Chocolate comes in many different varieties. I first thought as a kid that chocolate was chocolate. My mom was baking cookies one day and she asked me to help her, so I did. She had some chocolate that she was using and it looked like a regular chocolate bar. I got real excited and bit into it thinking that is was going to taste so yummy, but to my surprise is was bitter. She explained to me that it was pure cocoa, just like what is in the acceletrim weight loss product, and it was bitter sweet chocolate, minimal sugar added. It did not taste like what I thought.

There are five main types of chocolate: bittersweet, semisweet, dark, milk, and white chocolate. They vary depending on the amount of cocoa, sugar, butter, and milk that is used. The bittersweet is the closest form of pure chocolate, then semisweet is used mostly for candy and cookies, the milk chocolate is a favorite as far as taste is concerned as well as white chocolate, and then finally the dark chocolate still tastes good, but is much better for your health then milk and white chocolate.