CHEM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cocoa Butter, List Of Recurring The Simpsons Characters, Wilbur Olin Atwater

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 110
• Professor: Joe Schwarcz

Document Summary

Melting point @ 36 degrees celsius, 1 degree lower than the human body"s temperature. As soon as you put chocolate in your mouth it starts to melt. Aztecs in mexico used cocoa drinks to satisfy the gods. Made a preparation based on cocoa as a liquid and offer in gold goblets. As a result became very popular in europe as a drink. Mixed with a lot of sugar, cinnamon and vanilla to mask bitterness. For most of its history, not eaten but drunk. Cocoa flower: grows on cocoa trees: gets converted into cocoa pods, grows throughout the branches, not only the extremities, no season, once picked continue to grow. Gives better flavor: beans are then shelled. Ivory coast: 1. 51 million metric tons: a lot of child labor, ghana: 1. 03 million metric tons. Fair trade cocoa = best conditions for producers/workers. Chocolate by itself = very bitter, high fat. Looks at the properties of chocolate and tries to improve upon them.