OK, I'm confused. My son is anaphylactic to dairy & eggs, allergic to many others, not allowed to try
peanut. I recently decided that restricting chocolate from him is not ultimately necessary, and I'd
like to be able to make some chocolate-ridden dairy-free sweets occasionally (OK, I'm a chocoholic).
If you look on the cocoa box, the ingredients say "100% cocoa".
If you buy unsweetened chocolate bars for baking (watch out, some have peanut listed in the
ingredients!), it says "100% chocolate".
What's the difference? Do either contain dairy? How do they make cocoa and chocolate? I always
thought that cocoa as derived from the plant itself. Is unsweetened chocolate just a different
form of cocoa, or is it a different product altogether? What is safe and what is not? AAUUGGGHHH!
Thanks in advance for educating me once more.
Theresa Ray
Mom of Kyle (2 - dairy, eggs, berries, nuts, fish/shellfish, bay leaves, penicillin, MSG?)
and BabyRay due in June
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