Showing Food Chocolate - FooDB

General Information

Name

Chocolate

Scientific Name

Not Available

Description

Chocolate is a range of products derived from cocoa, mixed with fat (i.e. cocoa butter and/or plant oils) and finely powdered sugar to produce a solid confection. There are several types of chocolate according to the proportion of cocoa used in a particular formulation. The use of particular name designations is sometimes subject to governmental regulation. [Wikipedia]

Primary ID

FOOD00687

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Classification

Group

Cocoa and cocoa products

Sub-Group

Cocoa products

External Links

ITIS ID

Not Available

Wikipedia ID

Types_of_chocolate

Composition

Compounds

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Macronutrients

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Micronutrients

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References

Content Reference

— Saxholt, E., et al. 'Danish food composition databank, revision 7.' Department of Nutrition, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (2008).
— U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page.
— Rothwell JA, Pérez-Jiménez J, Neveu V, Medina-Ramon A, M'Hiri N, Garcia Lobato P, Manach C, Knox K, Eisner R, Wishart D, Scalbert A. (2013) Phenol-Explorer 3.0: a major update of the Phenol-Explorer database to incorporate data on the effects of food processing on polyphenol content. Database, 10.1093/database/bat070.