{"id":18020,"date":"2021-02-10T06:07:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=18020"},"modified":"2021-02-10T06:07:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:07:49","slug":"cocoa-newscast-10-02-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/cocoa-newscast-10-02-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"COCOA NEWSCAST – 10 FEB, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Cocoa Newscast is out in full stereo beauty. Give your ears a treat and listen below, or go to the Podcasts\/Cocoa News Cast page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Ritter Sport<\/a>, the German ‘family-owned’ chocolate manufacturers created its latest limited edition ‘Cacao y Nada’ bar, which means ‘cocoa and nothing’ has been told by German food law regulators it can not be called ‘chocolate’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new bar is made from 100% cocoa, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder and cocoa juice extract sourced from their own El Cacao plantation in Nicaragua. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cocoa juice found naturally in the pulp in cocoa beans which has a sweet and sour flavour with tropical notes of lychee and peach is used to sweeten the product, which was approved as a foodstuff by the EU in 2019, but that’s where the problem is. The bar contains no sugar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Germany\u2019s strict Kakao-Verordnung, or ‘chocolate ordinance’, it requires that any product labeled as \u201cchocolate\u201d must contain cocoa mass, cocoa powder, cocoa butter, and sugar, therefore Ritter’s new bar does not qualify to be called, ‘chocolate’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Confectioners who break the ‘cocoa rule’ risk being fined and banned from selling their product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The German chocolate maker has accused German food regulators of being out of date with modern trends, where people are stepping away from sugar and is heading towards healthier alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andreas Ronken, Ritter Sport\u2019s CEO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Andreas Ronken, Ritter Sport\u2019s CEO said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n