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What are the similarities between cocoa and bitter chocolate?
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2007-11-15 07:23:57
Cocoa is an ingriedient in chocolate. It is a refined dry powder
made from the cocoa bean. The cocoa butter has been remove from it.
Chocolate includes cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar, milk, and other
ingridients. As the proportions change in the chocolate mixture, it
is possable to derive various types of chocolate, like bitter,
semi-sweet, dark, and milk chocolate.
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