Are these safe?
#152130 - 02/20/05 09:23 AM
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Computr821
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I just got some chocolate chips with the following ingredients: sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soya lecithin, vanilla extract. Are these safe?
Avidan
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The rest of the ingredients are safe for me, but not sure what choc liquor would be like? Is that like liquor chocolates with alcohol in?
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I am not positive either but I felt horrible after eating that Tofutti chocolate soy ice cream which contains a lot of choc liquor. it also contains HFCS so that could hav been it too. never eating that again. Let us know what you find out, I am always looking for a good chocolate alternative 
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Chocolate Liquor is produced by grinding the cocoa bean nib (center) to a smooth, liquid state. The chocolate liquor can then be cooled and molded into blocks also known as unsweetened baking chocolate. The liquor and blocks contain roughly 53 percent cocoa butter.
Avidan
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3 of those chips would give me cramps.  not joking.
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The problem is... I have done a lot of research on this, is that when you buy chocolate like this, there is already "butter" in it, but it's not dairy butter, it's cocoa butter from the cocoa bean. Somwhere, as an additive (and I know its not the soy lechitin), caffeine is added, which makes it a trigger. HEATHER- can you shed any light on what makes chocolate become unsafe for us (outside of the high fat content).
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Those should be safe to use in baking. Just be careful, because by nature chocolate chips are packed with fat! Just use them sparingly. 
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