Bittersweet: Unwrapping the Hidden Side of Chocolate

People always eat sweets. In the mid-17th century the Dutch introduced sugarcane into the new world, and the Dutch used slaves to seize this opportunity to earn money in the West Indies in the UK. In the Atlantic triangle trade of America, Europe and Africa, sugar and slaves play an important role. Because they harvested cash crops circulating around the Atlantic Ocean, slaves are the labor of this trade network. A form of slavery that closely resembles the sugar cane farm in the Caribbean is child labor in the modern cocoa industry.

Bitter sweet chocolate: chocolate wine (or sugar-free chocolate), sugar, cocoa butter, lecithin, vanilla added. It contains less sugar and more wine than semi sweet chocolate, but when baked it is interchangeable. The highest quality bitterness and semi sweet chocolate are manufactured as sweets, and now many brands print percentages on the label. Domestic competitiveness: Switzerland is known for its high quality products from cheese to the world's best watches and chocolates.

Dark chocolate (also called dark chocolate, pure chocolate, bitter chocolate) is a kind of chocolate containing little cocoa solids and sugar containing much cocoa butter than milk chocolate. Depending on the country and market, "dark chocolate" may be displayed on government and industry standard products. At the beginning of the 21st century, the demand for dark chocolate has increased worldwide. As of 2018, high-quality clinical trials to evaluate the influence of cocoa compound on physiological outcome such as blood pressure are not carried out. Flavonol. In dark chocolate, flavanol contains monomer, epicatechin, catechin.