Dark Cocoa Powder With Smooth Flavor

The NetherlandsCargill's Cocoa & Chocolate introduced DB82 10-12% Gerkens® cocoa powder.

Until now, dark powders provided the much valued intense color for a range of applications, but with such intensity of color there can be an off taste, sometimes associated with bitterness. However, Cargill's specialized application center in Baupte, France, has made a breakthrough that has produced a unique dark powder with a round, pleasant and smooth chocolaty flavor.

Piet van Amelrooij, Director, Worldwide Powder Sales, for Cargill's Cocoa and Chocolate business, explains: "Cocoa powder producers have long sought the ultimate combination a powder with warm intense dark colour, but with a rich smooth chocolaty taste. With DB82 we have achieved exactly that - and now we have a unique product to offer to the market for use in improving recipes in existing products and to develop new products."

Cocoa powder is used in coatings and spreads, bakery and dairy applications, with Cargill offering the widest range of powders in the industry. DB82 is produced at Cargill's Gerkens® cocoa plant near Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

It has a relatively high pH, but tests across a range of applications have shown that this does not have a negative effect on taste, stability or processing parameters.