Um.

[hummingwolf]

"Eat your heart out, Dracula - scientists turn blood into biscuits and chocolate."

I'm guessing that the "chocolate" tastes about as much like chocolate as carob does--i.e. it's brown and it's sweet and the only people who think it tastes like chocolate are people who don't like dark chocolate. But it is interesting to see the lengths food scientists will go to in order to turn waste products into something people will buy.

Pardon me, I'm going to go eat a cantaloupe made up of recognizable cantaloupe parts now.

Comments

[iswari.livejournal.com]

You know, I've sometimes wondered if I would like carob if so many people hadn't told me before I tried it that it tastes like chocolate!

It soooo does *not* taste like chocolate... ;-P

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I know! Carob really isn't a bad flavor if you take it for what it is, but its flavor resembles chocolate about as much as butterscotch flavor does. Convincing people to substitute carob for chocolate really is a cruel trick.