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A Milka chocolate bar, 30% cocoa. Milk chocolate is a form of solid chocolate containing cocoa, sugar and milk. It is the most consumed type of chocolate, and is used in a wide diversity of bars, tablets and other confectionery products. Milk chocolate contains smaller amounts of cocoa solids than dark chocolates do, and (as with white ...
Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604, [1] and in Spanish in 1579. [2] However, the words origins beyond this are contentious. While it is popularly believed that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl (the language of the Aztecs), early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning "cacao water".
Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring in other foods. The cacao tree has been used as a source of food for at least 5,300 years, starting with the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in what is present-day Ecuador. Later, Mesoamerican civilizations consumed ...
September 13, 2024 at 12:02 AM. On this day in history, September 13, 1857, milk chocolate magnate Milton Hershey is born. Milton Snavely Hershey, a German-speaking Mennonite farmer who turned his ...
Relatives. François-Louis Cailler (father-in-law) Daniel Peter (9 March 1836 – 4 November 1919) was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur who founded Peter's Chocolate. A neighbour of Henri Nestlé in Vevey, [1] he was one of the first chocolatiers to make milk chocolate and is credited for inventing it, [1][2][3] in 1875 or 1876, by adding ...
Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was an American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist. Trained in the confectionery business, Hershey pioneered the manufacture of caramel, using fresh milk. He launched the Lancaster Caramel Company, which achieved bulk exports, and then sold it to start a new company ...
Colour. Brown. Ingredients. Cocoa or chocolate and milk; optionally sugar or substitute sweeteners and fat. Related products. Hot chocolate. Chocolate milk is a type of flavoured milk made by mixing cocoa solids with milk (either dairy or plant-based). It is a food pairing in which the milk's mouthfeel masks the dietary fibres of the cocoa solids.
The Natural History Museum lists Sloane as the inventor of drinking chocolate with milk. However, according to historian James Delbourgo, the Jamaicans were brewing "a hot beverage brewed from shavings of freshly harvested cacao, boiled with milk and cinnamon" as far back as 1494. [6]