Why your favorite candy bar no longer has 'milk chocolate' by: David Lazarus https://ktla.com/news/consumer... Candy companies are changing their recipes. Climate change is affecting cocoa production and leading to higher prices and scarcity. That, in turn, has the candy industry redoing its recipes to try to minimize the use of cocoa and cocoa butter and use alternative ingredients without messing too much with the taste. And that's something that is now prompting them to quietly change the labeling of their candies as well. For example, you may not have noticed, but the labels of Almond Joy, Mr. Goodbar and other candies have been suddenly changed in recent years. Gone are the words "milk chocolate," replaced with the largely meaningless phrase "chocolate candy." So, what's up with that? The Food and Drug Administration has very clear criteria for what constitutes milk chocolate, and the chocolate industry ran afoul of that. When grappling with their high cocoa costs, they started replacing expensive cocoa butter with other fats. |