Identification of Triacylglycerol Profile, Solid Fat Content, and Slip Melting Point of Cocoa Butter Like Fat from Chocolate Bar Products in Indonesian Market

Abstract

Chocolate is one of the main product from cocoa bean which vary depends on its quality and price. Chocolate is well -known with its brittle and good snap in room temperature and could melt quickly and completely in temperature of mouth. Fat that plays the big role in the melting properties of chocolate is cocoa butter. In view of the fact that cocoa butter is the most expensive chocolate component whose price and availability often change, there have been long term efforts to replace it, fully or in p art, with other vegetable fats, so-called cocoa butter alternatives, which would be cheaper . Furthermore, the absence of regulation about CBA addition has caused to the variety of chocolate confectionery products quality in Indonesia. The cocoa butter-like fat or CBA profile needs to be analyzed to know the variety of chocolate bar quality in market. Cocoa butter profile s were identified by analyzing the triacylglycerol profile, solid fat content, and the slip melting point.