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In 2002, the US Food and Drug Administration established a standard for white chocolate as the "common or usual name of products made from cocoa fat (i.e., cocoa butter), milk solids, nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners, and other safe and suitable ingredients, but containing no nonfat cocoa solids". [7]
White chocolate is a form of chocolate made of cocoa butter, sugar and milk.Unlike milk and dark chocolate, it does not contain cocoa solids, which darken the chocolate.White chocolate has an ivory color, and can smell of biscuit, vanilla or caramel, although it can also easily pick up smells from the environment and become rancid with its relatively short shelf life.
Chocolate, prevalent throughout the world, is a steadily growing, US$50 billion-a-year worldwide business as of 2009. [141] As of 2006, Europe accounted for 45% of the world's chocolate revenue, [142] and the US spent $20 billion in 2013. [143] Big Chocolate is a grouping of major international chocolate companies in Europe and the US. In 2004 ...