Changes to your chocolate
Do you love chocolate? If so, you might be interested in knowing that in order to cut costs, Hershey’s has taken the cocoa butter—which gives chocolate its creaminess—out of some of its products and replaced it with cheaper vegetable oil. These products include Mr. Goodbar, Take 5, Milk Duds, Kissables and Krackel. Because it can no longer be legally called “milk chocolate,” the labels now contain such words as “chocolate flavored,” “chocolatey” or “made with chocolate.”
As you can imagine, chocolate purists are in a tizzy about it—we chocoholics tend to get cranky when you threaten our beloved treat. Hershey’s has already had to switch Almond Joy back to the cocoa-butter recipe because of customer complaints. “Today” did a taste test, and it was 50-50 whether tasters liked the old or new formula better. But even tasters who enjoyed the new taste weren’t happy when they found out it didn’t contain cocoa butter.
Hershey’s is still using cocoa butter in its more signature products, such as Hershey bars, Kisses and Reese’s cups.
I tend to eat only dark chocolate, so I haven’t eaten any candy bars with vegetable oil instead. Have any of you noticed the change in your chocolate?
