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Author: Florian Odijk

My name is Florian and I come from Essen. I'm an archaeologist and work as a museum educator at the Chocolate Museum. Here are three things you should know about me: 1. I love history and telling others about it. 2. my favorite thing to eat is milk chocolate. Sometimes it's the simple things! 3. my favorite place in the museum is of course our archaeological collection: it's always great to come up the stairs after the living chocolate factory and dive deep into history.

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The Cocoa Regulation

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Not all chocolate is the same. You can't just mix together any old cocoa and sugar and sell it as chocolate. There are significant differences between types of chocolate: when do we refer to it as milk chocolate, dark chocolate, fine chocolate or white chocolate? Questions like these are regulated.

Cocoa history

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For us, chocolate is a natural part of life. Yet the history of chocolate, including the history of cocoa in Germany and Europe, is not all that old. The first chocolate bar was produced just 150 years ago.