Types of Chocolate

The main types of chocolate we see today in our supermarkets are:

• Milk Chocolate which is contains 10-20% cocoa (including cocoa butter and pure cocoa, 12% milk solids.
• Dark Chocolate which contains 90%-95% cocoa and very little milk
• Sweet Dark Chocolate which contains 35%-40% cocoa and 10% milk
• Semi-Sweet Chocolate which contains 40%-65% cocoa
• Bitter-Sweet Chcoclate which contains 60%-85% cocoa and very little to no milk
• Unsweetened- chocolate or Cooking chocolate 100% refined cocoa
• White-Chocolate or known as false chocolate made up of cocoa butter, sugar, milk, emulsifier, vanilla and sometimes other flavourings.