SC+Food+Flavors

From "The Sweet Taste of Success"......

Q & A :

1. What is Molasses? Molasses, the concentrated extract of sugar cane, is a strongly flavored, slightly sweet syrup.

2. How chocolate made of? start with cocoa beans, which grow in elongated pods. The pods are broken, and the beans and pulp are fermented microbially and enzymatically. This process promotes development of chemical precursors, later becoming important flavor components. The beans are dried and roasted. This converts the flavor precursors to a complex mixture of many aromatic compounds, including esters, lactones, pyrazines, hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, phenols, sulfides and more. The resulting product, a nib, is ground to release fat from the cells, which melts from heat generated by grinding.