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EPISODE · Oct 31, 2017 · 43 MIN

FLR 020: Delving into Chocolate, “Food of the Gods”

from Food Labels Revealed · host Mel Weinstein

INGREDIENT OF THE DAY:  polyglycerol polyricinoleate Today’s show is all about chocolate.  Do you have a chocolate craving?  Listen and find out why.  Along the way, you’ll hear about how Christopher Columbus stumbled upon chocolate and didn’t know what he found, what is Dutch cocoa and what’s special about it, what the heck is conching, why milk chocolate took so long to be invented, the only town in America to be named after a chocolatier, the evaluation of 3 different chocolate bars and why they are so different, and what’s so wonderful about chocolate.  Finally, a new podcast feature about processed foods will be introduced. Show Notes: To Contact Show:  [email protected] The podcast can be subscribed to at the iTunes store.  Search under Food Labels Revealed.   References: The True History of Chocolate by Sophie and Michael Coe [book] http://tinyurl.com/y8ymbonm Slave Free Chocolate [website] http://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ Hershey Company [website] https://www.hersheys.com Endangered Species Chocolate [website] http://www.chocolatebar.com/ Lindt Chocolate Company [website] https://www.lindtusa.com/ Nuts.com [website with cacao nibs info] https://nuts.com/

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