Chef at 16:09, 7 October 2024

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[[Image:Chocolate tree.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Part of a chocolate 'tree' at Borough Market]]
[[Image:Chocolate.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Varieties of chocolate]]
'''Chocolate''' comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Native to lowland, tropical South America, '''cacao''' has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Central America and Mexico, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican peoples made chocolate beverages, including the Maya and Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water". The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavour. After fermentation, the beans are [[dried]], cleaned, and [[roasted]], and the shell is removed to produce cacao nibs. The nibs are then ground and liquefied, resulting in pure chocolate in fluid form: chocolate liquor. The liquor can be further processed into two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter.

Pure, unsweetened chocolate contains primarily '''cocoa solids''' and '''cocoa butter''' in varying proportions. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, combining chocolate with [[sugar]]. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains [[milk powder]] or [[condensed milk]]. "White chocolate" contains cocoa butter, [[sugar]], and [[milk]] but no cocoa solids (and thus does not qualify to be considered true chocolate).

Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages, to produce [[chocolate milk]] and [[hot chocolate]].
== How much does one cup of chocolate weigh? ==
''Estimated [[Generic_conversion_table#Volume|US cup]] to weight equivalents:''
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!style="min-width: 40%;"|'''Ounces'''
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|Chocolate (squares)||1 Cup||125 g||4.5 oz
|}
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== How much does one cup of chocolate chips weigh? ==
''Estimated [[Generic_conversion_table#Volume|US cup]] to weight equivalents:''
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!style="min-width: 20%;"|'''Ingredient'''
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|Chocolate Chips||1 Cup||175 g||6 oz
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== How much does one cup of cocoa powder weigh? ==
''Estimated [[Generic_conversion_table#Volume|US cup]] to weight equivalents:''
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!style="min-width: 20%;"|'''Ingredient'''
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!style="min-width: 40%;"|'''Grams'''
!style="min-width: 40%;"|'''Ounces'''
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|Coco Powder||1 Cup||100 g||4 oz
|}
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'''Conversion notes:'''<br />
Every [[ingredient]] has a cups to ounces or grams conversion table. Search for the ingredient, cup to weight conversions are at the end of each ingredient page.

We also have a [[generic conversion table]] and a [[portions per person lookup]].

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[[Category:Store cupboard items]]

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Chef at 16:09, 7 October 2024