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White chocolate contains no cocoa solids

It is made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk, with the dark powder left out White chocolate uses the fat pressed from roasted cocoa beans but none of the brown solids that give dark chocolate its colour and much of its flavour. Standards in the United States require at least 20 percent cocoa butter, while European rules also set minimum milk and sugar levels. Its taste comes almost entirely from cocoa butter, milk and vanilla. It sits in Mondo's food collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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US Food and Drug Administration

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White chocolate contains no cocoa solids: the short answers

Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It is made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk, with the dark powder left out. The figure is taken from US Food and Drug Administration, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a food fact?: Yes. It sits on the Food shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.