FCIA Fine Chocolate Glossary

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Chocolate

Chocolate is a food made with roasted and refined cacao beans with sugar and other ingredients.

In all cases, a chocolate must contain the fat View Entry

Chocolate Bar

A chocolate bar is a solid, shaped product containing chocolate made with some or all of the following: cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, and milk. View Entry

Chocolate Maker

At the broadest level, any person or entity that transforms dry cacao into chocolate, regardless of method or volume.

Making chocolate involves several transformative steps, View Entry

Chocolate, Bean to Bar

“Bean to bar” is an approach to making chocolate that communicates added value and a focus on maximizing the natural flavors inherent in the cacao View Entry

Chocolate, Craft

Often contrasted with “commodity chocolate,” craft chocolate is typically:

  • made in small batches;
  • from high-quality, traceable cocoa, where beans have been sourced for proper fermentation,
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Chocolate, Drinking

Drinking chocolate is chocolate designed to melt in warm water, milk, or alt-milk in order to make a rich chocolate beverage. “Drinking chocolate” may refer View Entry

Chocolate, Filled

Any product consisting of a shell or outer coating made with chocolate, with a filling which may be flavored or unflavored.

The filling can be View Entry