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Things You Need To Know About Teuscher Chocolates

By Douglas Taylor


Teuscher is a chocolatier based on Switzerland with a lot of branches in the different cities around the world. They manufacture hundreds of varieties of confections, pastries and cookies which are famous worldwide. These are freshly made every week or two and flown directly to their different branches around the world from their headquarters.

There are numerous people who likes to eat them and always want to taste one of the best ones they can find. Teuscher chocolates are of one of them which many have praised for the top quality of its taste and texture. The following are some essential details about their main ingredient, chocolates, which you can have as additional knowledge of this popular food.

They are made by crushing the fruit of cacao tree so that an unsweetened chocolate can be produced. When these are crushed, a fatty substance remains which is called cocoa butter while the solid one is called cocoa powder which has been ground. Its scientific name would roughly translate to food of gods.

Around forty or fifty million people depend on harvesting and manufacturing them as a source of their livelihood. The chocolate bars are labeled with the percentage indicating the total content it has of cacao solid. Although white variants does not contain cacao solids but they should instead contain cocoa butter to be considered as chocolate.

Chocolates are among the most popular items people like to give as presents to the persons they love specially on Valentines days. Millions are sold on this special day specifically those being packaged inside heart shaped boxes. Here are some things you need to know in purchasing good quality ones in having gift that is perfect.

Check the ingredients and see if cocoa is listed on the top and avoid those that have ingredients which are hard to pronounce. See also when it was made and the more recent and fresher ones will obviously have better quality. Different types of chocolates have different longevity until it is not advisable for them to be used.

It should also smell like chocolate and not something else because they tend to absorb the odor of their environment meaning it was not stored well. Having no smell also indicates its poor quality or it being already old. Their surface should look glossy and is consistent and does not have any blemishes if you are able see them.

After buying, you can further test them by breaking it and good ones must have a sound of a clean snap. Milk and vanilla chocolates have a tendency to bend than snap because of their milk and sugar content which is high. And finally, tasting them is the final test because everyone possess different preference though the good ones would melt immediately in the mouth with the inferior feeling grainy.

These are also healthy foods which contains antioxidants fighting off free radicals and their accompanying diseases. Avoid buying with labels stating they are dutched because it is an alkanizing process that reduces the healthy compounds for the heart. The origin of ingredients is not important because there is almost no difference in their quality and taste.




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