CHOCOLATE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 15 August 1929, Page 9

CHOCOLATE.

ITS FOODi VALUE. la ordinary chocolatei the relative proportions of nib, cocoa;, batter, and sugar, vary considerably, but in the composition of a, high class eating chocolate, there would, be. 31 per cent, of cocoa butter and 52 per cent, of sugar, which, converted into energy giving power calories per lb. would be translated as oocoal butter 1,327 calories, and sugar 973, and allowing 162 calories for other digestible carbohydrates, and 76 for protein, gives a. total number of calories 2,538. This figure is. given below showing the relative values of foodstuffs on the basis of calories per lib.

The fuel value <jf milk chocolate is | even greater than that of plain choco-! late, yielding 2,615 energy giving, calories per lb. and it is generally recognised that milk chocolate is the most nutritious of all sweetmeats, which is easily understood when, in one pound of chocolate (high grade milk Chocolate) there is three-quarters of a pound of chocolate, and two pounds of milk. Milk chocolate retains all the' - cream proteins, sugar, phosphates, and calcium of the original milk, as well as the important vituindns A, 33, and D. 3>uring the war chocolate was very much valued as a compact food, and all polar expeditions carry chocolate as an essential part of the diet.

FUEL VALUE! OF FOODSTUFFS. Foodstuffs a's Calories. Purchased. Per lib. Oalbbagc 121 Ood Fish 209 Apples 214 Potatoes* 202 Milk 214 Eggs 594 Beef Steak 960 Bread (average white) ... 1180 Oatmeal 1811 Sugar 1835 Cocoa 2258 Bating Chocolate 2538