- If you love white chocolate, then I hate to break it to you, you're not eating chocolate, you're eating fat, fat removed from chocolate.

The pretty name is cocoa butter.

Okay, let's start with the basics.

Chocolate is made from cacao beans, which are not beans but the seeds of the cacao fruit.

These seeds are ground into a paste that's made of cocoa solids and cocoa butter.

This paste is the foundation of all chocolate, which by definition has to have ground cocoa solids.

They're in milk chocolate, dark chocolate, even in your hot chocolate powder.

But white chocolate has nothing but the fat, mixed with sugar, milk, and vanilla, oh and palm oil and stabilizers if you're eating the cheap stuff.

True white chocolate must be at least 20% cocoa butter and cocoa butter is ivory colored, so if your white chocolate is pure white, then it's probably fake.

Check the ingredients, it'll have little to no cocoa butter at all.

Now listen, fat should not be vilified.

Cocoa butter has omega fatty acids that are essential to our health, and white chocolate has none of the caffeine that's in the cocoa solids.

Silver linings my friends, silver linings.

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