new non-fat chocolate

[Amby 490]

A bar of chocolate has been created that can be eaten while you diet.

Its makers claim it has 90% fewer calories than a normal bar and doesn't melt as easy as every day chocolate.

Swiss chocolatier Barry Callebaut has named his secret ingredient "Vulcano" because it can withstand heat up to 55C.

A spokesman told the Daily Mirror: "Our engineers stumbled upon the technique by accident.

"It's nice and chocolatey with a strong aroma. It does melt in the mouth but it is the enzymes in saliva rather than the heat that cause it to dissolve."

The company hope to sell Vulcano to Cadbury's and Nestle and It could be used in their bars within two years.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3417556.html?menu=

[Niels Bohr 72]

90% fewer calories doesn't mean it's non-fat. Calories are unit of energy.

[Peikko 1,575]

I don't like the idea of an ingredient that doesn't melt to such high temperatures, sounds suspicious. Besides which ANY person who eats a nutriotionaly sound, calorie controlled diet can eat a little perfectly ordinary chocolate and come to no harm. This idea that we need products to indulge greed is weird to me.

[Amby 490]

90% fewer calories doesn't mean it's non-fat. Calories are unit of energy.

Thank you my hydrogen bomb friend. I know all about calories. I just used the same title from the site.

[Rhiannercakes 14]

I don't like the idea of an ingredient that doesn't melt to such high temperatures, sounds suspicious. Besides which ANY person who eats a nutriotionaly sound, calorie controlled diet can eat a little perfectly ordinary chocolate and come to no harm. This idea that we need products to indulge greed is weird to me.

I agree with you.

Something that doesn't melt at high temperatures sounds like plastic or something of the sort.

I'll stick to regular chocolate, thanks.

Dark chocolate in small quantities is actually good for you, has antioxidants.