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Mars Cocoapro®
Harvested with Health In Mind
Steps in the cocoa manufacturing process:
The Mars Cocoapro® process takes care to preserve flavanols at each step along the way.
Various fruits, including cocoa, tea and wine, can contain naturally-occurring compounds called flavanols.
Cocoa beans can be a potentially rich source of flavanols. However, most modern agricultural development practices and food manufacturing technologies destroy these naturally-occurring compounds, drastically reducing the flavanol content.
Mars Cocoapro® is a patented, proprietary process designed to retain flavanols throughout manufacturing while preserving the great taste consumers love.
Products made with Mars Cocoapro® contain a verifiable amount of cocoa flavanols.
The Typical Cocoa Manufacturing Process
The typical cocoa manufacturing process was developed throughout cocoa's history to achieve a rich chocolate flavor, but it drastically reduces the amount of naturally occurring flavanols for a number of reasons:
- To achieve maximum flavor, beans are traditionally roasted at high temperatures. But flavanols are destroyed when they're subjected to these high temperatures.
- Flavanols are known to interact with other ingredients during batch processing, including carbohydrate- and protein-containing ingredients. These interactions can significantly reduce flavanol content.
- The best chocolate flavor is produced by carefully fermenting the cocoa beans. However, fermentation significantly reduces the amount of flavanols. Unfermented beans contain the highest level of flavanols, but they taste bitter, without any chocolate flavor.
How Mars Cocoapro® Preserves Flavanols
The Mars Cocoapro® process works by reducing the cocoa beans' exposure to high
temperatures, thus isolating flavanol-rich cocoa. Mars then draws on its more than 90 years
of chocolate experience to produce cocoa butter and solids of the highest quality and taste.
By blending these two mixtures together, Mars can retain a majority of flavanols while
keeping the flavor consumers love.
Learn more about Mars Cocoapro® products containing verifiable amounts of cocoa flavanols.
