Chocolate bars

Favorite delicacy of modern children and some adults, chocolate bars are firmly entrenched in the domestic culinary tradition. First of all, a chocolate bar is a confection, sweetness or candy. Not only the taste and consumer characteristics of the chocolate bar, as well as the appearance of the sweetness, are distinctive. As a rule, the chocolate bar has an oblong rectangular appearance. Mass production of chocolate bars began the world famous company Nestle in the last century.

It was then that Nestle specialists developed a recipe for condensed milk, which was mixed with cocoa, and then poured into special molds filled with nougat and caramel. The result is one of the most popular confectionery on earth - a milk chocolate bar with a filling. However, over the several decades of the existence of candy, a sufficient number of types of chocolate bars have accumulated, which, as a rule, differ from each other in the initial composition of the ingredients, as well as in the filling.

Composition of chocolate bars

According to the classic recipe, the chocolate bar includes cocoa powder or cocoa bean butter, milk, and in some cases cream, sugar or sugar substitutes, and caramel nougat. In addition, as part of chocolate bars, you can often notice nuts, fruits, as well as waffles or cookies. The following most common and popular types of chocolate bars are distinguished:



a chocolate bar made from bitter or milk chocolate;

a chocolate nougat bar;

chocolate caramel bar;

a chocolate bar filled with porous chocolate; a chocolate bar with a nut or fruit filling;

sports chocolate bars, as a rule, differ in the content of more vitamins, as well as other biologically active and beneficial substances.



In addition, it is worth focusing on the variety of brands under which chocolate bars have been produced for decades. For example, well-known chocolate bars - Bounty, Snickers, Mars, Toblerone, Twix or Nuts. What kind of chocolate bars you can't take, almost every confection will be packed in a polyethylene bright package. The small size of the sweetness, as well as the high nutritional value, makes chocolate bars a great food for a quick "snack" in the absence of another alternative.

Given the wide prevalence of chocolate bars, confectionery can be freely purchased in any domestic store. The calorie content of chocolate bars varies depending on the composition of the initial ingredients that are used to make sweets. The average calorie content of a chocolate bar is at 492 Kcal, which is per 100 grams of confectionery. It is worth noting that the calorie content of any type of chocolate bar will be at a fairly high level.

The harms of chocolate bars

For this reason, most nutritionists, as well as doctors, advise to completely exclude chocolate bars from the diet for people with obesity or diabetes. Otherwise, the harm from chocolate bars can result in serious health problems. In addition, pediatricians advise parents to ensure that the child does not abuse sweets, because the harm of chocolate bars can affect the health of the child's body. First of all, the digestive organs, as well as teeth.