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Draft:Glossary of chocolate terms

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  • "Alicia: And the words that are used in chocolate, “fine,” “craft,” “specialty,” “artisan,” can be challenging for a lot of people to understand when they're trying to buy a bar of chocolate. How do you define those? And what do you look for in a chocolate label? Carla: Totally."[1]
  • "Leissle, an academic who has studied the chocolate industry for more than 20 years, says that even she struggles sometimes with the various nomenclature."[2]

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CCN-51
A variety of cocoa bean which was one of the most popular varieties of cocoa bean as 2015. At that time it was controversial among advocates of flavor cocoa, and supported by large chocolate manufacturers as a solution to growing chocolate demand.[3]
Craft chocolate
As of 2017 there was no industry definition of craft chocolate.[4]
Cut test
Quality test for cocoa beans. A set of beans are cut lengthwise to check for underfermentation, mold, germination, insect damage or if lack nibs.[5]

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Books

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  • Fowler, Mark S; Coutel, Fabien (2017). "Cocoa beans: from tree to factory". In Beckett, Stephen T; Fowler, Mark S; Ziegler, Gregory R (eds.). Beckett's Industrial Chocolate Manufacture and Use (5th ed.). West Sussex, UK: Wiley. ISBN 9781118780145.

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