Since 2003, EU Directive 2000/36/EC has allowed up to 5% of tropical fats (palm oil, shea, illipé) to replace cocoa butter in chocolate, which is apparently anomalous and has profoundly redefined the legal boundary between true chocolate and a simple chocolate product, ending almost 30 years of quarrel between purist producer countries and northern European nations. More
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Since 2003, EU Directive 2000/36/EC has allowed up to 5% of tropical fats (palm oil, shea, illipé) to replace cocoa butter in chocolate, which is apparently anomalous and has profoundly redefined the legal boundary between true chocolate and a simple chocolate product, ending almost 30 years of quarrel between purist producer countries and northern European nations. More