July-September 2025 COTM + COOKING FROM thread -- JULIA TURSHEN

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I was thinking about Bounty and Mounds and how the reformulation can longer be called chocolate

What’s missing from your favorite chocolate bar? It may be chocolate.

Almost no one noticed when, sometime over the last few years, the packaging on Almond Joy, Mr Goodbar and Rolo was updated to remove the words “milk chocolate.” Experts say high cocoa prices have triggered a wave of “reformulations,” the industry term for recipe changes… …replacing expensive cocoa butter with other fats, a swap that means their products no longer meet the US regulatory definition of milk chocolate and can no longer be called that on packaging. Asked about reformulations in a …