Global morale sank under the weight of chocolate substitutes.

In foods and beverages, carob is used as a flavoring agent and as a chocolate substitute.

Halva (unless coated with chocolate or chocolate substitute or held out for sale as confectionery)

The crisp, hard sheen on the icing is because of the use of carob bean gum - the carob, or locust bean, is also sometimes used as a chocolate substitute.

Its ingredients include soy and soy byproducts, non-dairy milk substitute, the chemical sweetner trademarked as Sweet-T, and the trademarked chocolate substitute Choc-O-Like.

To believe that to say that just because vegetable fat - and I repeat, vegetable fat - is used in Great Britain or Sweden, this makes it a chocolate substitute, is an arrogance towards the whole population there, who are accustomed to this chocolate and like eating it.

The bean, when made into powder, is sweet-with a flavor similar to chocolate-and is used to sweeten foods and as a chocolate substitute, although this carob powder is produced from the fruit pod after removal of seeds, while the gum is produced from the seeds themselves.