CHOCOLATE

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it is kissing the conveyor belt.

GOOD NEWS for chocolate lovers.

The Department of of Health and Human Services Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has published a chart of acceptable defects in chocolate.

Acceptable Insect Filth:
It is OK to have 59 insect fragments per 100 grams of chocolate when 6-100 gram subsamples are examined, although the batch must be rejected if any one of the 6 subsamples contains 90 or more insect fragments.

Acceptable Rodent Filth:
5 rodent hairs in the 6-100gram subsamples.

Cocoa Beans:
4% can be moldy
4% can be insect damaged or infested.
6% can be moldy and insect infested
9.9 mg of mammalian excreta per pound is allowable.

In addition, Chocolate raises serum glucose, cholesterol, tryglycerides, and uric acid; upsets the endocrine balance; interferes with protein metabolism; and depletes magnesium, zinc and chromium

Just thought you would like to know!

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