Cocoa powder, cacao that has been pressed and its oil removed, soluble Cocoa and disintegrated cacao are synonyms for cacao mass which has been reduced to powder form after they have been partially separated from fat by expression under heat; and generally treatment with alkalis or their carbonates, alkaline earths, ammonia, and ammonia salts under a strong steam pressure are presupposed.
Cocoa powder containing under 20% of fat, as well as that treated with spices (aromatised or scented) must be declared accordingly.
Cocoa powder may not contain any kind of foreign substance. Traces of shell may only be present in minor quantity. The waste product falling in the cleansing of the bean may neither be added to the cocoa powder nor itself worked up into such a powder.
The added alkali or alkaline earths may not exceed 3 % of the raw material.
Only powdered cacao and cocoa powder which has been treated with ammonia and its salts under strong steam pressure shows from 3 to 5 % of ash on cacao mass containing 55 % of fat.
Cocoa powders disintegrated with alkalis and alkaline earths must not show more than 8 % of ash on cacao containing 55 % of fat.
The percentage of water must not rise above 9.
III.
Chocolate is a mixture of cacao material with beetroot or cane sugar and a proportionate admixture of spices (vanilla, vanillin, cinnamon, cloves and so forth). Many chocolates contain apart from that an addition of cacao butter.
The percentage of sugar may not amount to more than 68.