09/14/2026
Perhaps you haven’t noticed it yet….
More and more food products are now using “chocolatey” ingredients to suggest there is actually chocolate in the recipe.
There is NOT! 👹
Sweets, cookies, cereals, granola bars, and yes, even ice cream, are using “chocolatey” coatings or crunches or chips.
But, what’s the difference?
SO GLAD YOU ASKED!
REAL chocolate requires chocolate liquor and cocoa butter derived directly from cacao beans. “Chocolatey” or “chocolate-flavored” products substitute cocoa butter with processed vegetable fats like palm kernel oil.
Because they replace expen$ive cocoa butter with cheaper vegetable oils, they fail to meet the legal definition of chocolate and are therefore “chocolatey”.
You will ✨never✨ find pseudonymgreients in my ice cream.
Only real chocolate 🍫