Why is there such a big difference of carbs in dark chocolate?
I'm noticing that there is a huge difference of the amount of carbs in dark chocolate.
For example, Lindt Excellence Cocoa 90% says: 100g chocolate: 592 kcal 55g fat 10g protein 19g carbs of which 14g is sugar in 100g chocolate.
Amedei Toscano Black 90% says per 100g chocolate: 741 kcal 53g fat 11g protein 55g carbs of which 32g sugar per 100g chocolate.
Both are 90%, similar protein and fat amounts but the carbs differs a lot. Why is that, what's going on here?
Best Answer
Nominally, high-quality dark chocolate is made of just two things, cocoa beans and sugar. In reality, nobody just chucks beans and sugar into a machine together. The cocoa beans get processed to different intermediate cocoa-derived products, and these get mixed with sugar to make a chocolate bar.
The cocoa-derived products can be very different. There is a range from cocoa butter (100% fat) to low-fat cocoa powder (about 5% fat, the rest is basically all carbohydrates), with other products with a fat content between these two extremes. The difference in fat comes from simple mechanical separation - once the cocoa butter has been "churned" from the cocoa liquor, what is left can be milled into cocoa powder.
The 90% number printed on the package means the total amount of cocoa-bean derived products. But their combination does not have to resemble the nutrient composition of a raw cocoa bean, it can be chosen by the producer any way they wish. So, apparently, Lindt Excellence uses a higher percentage of cocoa butter (or other fat-rich cocoa products) than Amedei Toscano Black.
If you are wondering about the sugar content being different, note that the ingredient "sugar" (the 10% added to the 90% cocoa) is not the same thing that gets counted in the nutrition label, where any sugars (including those already present in the cocoa bean) are included in the calculation. See this recent question for a longer explanation.
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per 100g chocolate: 741 kcal 53g fat 11g protein 55g carbs
53 + 11 + 55 = 119. So either you misread or they miswrote.
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