White "chocolate" is made of cocoa butter solids and contains no actual cocoa components. Therefore it is not chocolate.
Yeah, this is the hill I will die on.
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@GeekMom727 can we discuss the blurry line that is why cocoa butter solids, sourced from the cocoa plant, are not cocoa components?
If you've had real white chocolate from real natural cacao, it is heaven.
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The controversy started because "confectioners compound," which is made with shortening and contains no cacao products, is often used like white chocolate, which must be made from cocoa butter.
But now most is made from cocoa butter from the CCN51 variety of cacao, which is disease resistant, produces massive amounts of cocoa butter, but has no actual flavor of chocolate. So things that are legally "white chocolate" taste like confectioners' compound.