I am a label reader.  In fact, I judiciously read labels because it is a matter of life or death for my daughter who has serious food allergies.  But just because I read labels doesn’t mean I understand everything on them!

Luckily, I have experience understanding what’s on a chocolate label.  When I was developing product for a large chocolate manufacturer, part of my job was to create the labels that went on our chocolates.

So, what exactly are things like “chocolate liquor,” “cocoa butter,” “soya lecithin,” or “butter fat” (by the way, isn’t butter fat a bit redundant)?
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