Friday 28 April 2017

Basic Information About Teuscher Chocolates

By Douglas Taylor


Teuscher is a Swiss based chocolatier having numerous stores in the various cities worldwide. They manufacture a hundred or more varieties of cookies, confections, and pastries which are famous around the world. These are made freshly every week or every two weeks and is being flown directly to the various stores worldwide from their headquarters in order to maintain freshness.

There are numerous people who likes to eat them and always want to taste one of the best ones they can find. Teuscher chocolates are of one of them which many have praised for the top quality of its taste and texture. The following are some essential details about their main ingredient, chocolates, which you can have as additional knowledge of this popular food.

They are made from the fruit of cacao tree which is crushed in order to make an unsweetened chocolate. When they are crushed, there remains a fatty substance called the cocoa butter and a solid one called cocoa powder after being ground. The scientific name of the tree translates roughly to food of the gods.

Forty million or fifty million have the harvesting and manufacturing of chocolate as their main source of livelihood or income. Chocolate bars have a label indicating the percentage of how much cacao solid it contains. Although white variants do not contain any cacao solids, to be considered as a chocolate, they should contain cocoa butter.

The chocolates are one of the most popular gifts people present to their loved ones specially during Valentines day. Millions are being sold during this day specially those that are packaged inside boxes shaped like a heart. Here are some tips in buying some good quality ones to have the perfect gift ready.

Check the ingredients to see if cocoa is on the top of the list and avoid those which have ingredients that are difficult to pronounce. See when it was manufactured also and the fresher more recent ones will have better quality obviously. Different kinds of chocolates can be stored for different lengths of time before they are not advisable for consumption.

It should also smell like chocolate and not something else because they tend to absorb the odor of their environment meaning it was not stored well. Having no smell also indicates its poor quality or it being already old. Their surface should look glossy and is consistent and does not have any blemishes if you are able see them.

After buying, you can further test them by breaking it and good ones must have a sound of a clean snap. Milk and vanilla chocolates have a tendency to bend than snap because of their milk and sugar content which is high. And finally, tasting them is the final test because everyone possess different preference though the good ones would melt immediately in the mouth with the inferior feeling grainy.

They are healthy foods because of the antioxidants inside them which are good against free radicals. Avoid purchasing those labeled as dutched chocolate because the alkalizing process reduces healthy compounds good for the heart. Where the ingredient originated is not important because their taste and quality has almost no differences.




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