Cooking low-fat chocolate desserts means using unsweetened cocoa, like Hershey or Droste.
The company uses primarily Kuapa cocoa, and the cooperative also holds 45% of Divine Chocolate's stock.
It is made using cocoa, chestnuts, cloves and citrus zest.
Both U-Bet and Bosco, another brand with NY/NJ roots, use real cocoa.
As the producers carefully point out, if a Belgian chocolatier uses cocoa from Ivory Coast, does that mean that the chocolate is African?
In 1890 he expanded to incorporate using the flour and cocoa to produce biscuits and sweets.
Today cooks, using modern processed cocoa, sometimes add a touch of red food coloring to bring back the authentic color.
Master Sergio uses only the choicest ingredients: pistachios from Sicily and cocoa from Venezuela.
South American and European cultures have used cocoa to treat diarrhea for hundreds of years.
In Spain, chocolate was exclusively considered a refreshing drink, and it was rarely used in other ways-though there are older Spanish dishes that use cocoa.