White chocolate is a delicious alternative to milk and dark chocolate - but there's something you need to know about it.
It turns out that, despite the name, it isn't actually chocolate at all.
White chocolate is classed as a chocolate confectonary, meaning it's not pure chocolate, which doesn't contain any solids.
In fact, it actually uses a blend of cocoa butter, sugar, milk products, vanilla and an emulsifier known as lecithin, the Daily Star says.
The food masterminds at Bon Appetit explained the key difference between chocolate and white chocolate - and people with a sweet tooth were shocked to hear it.
Bon Appetit said: "When cocoa beans are removed from their pods, fermented, dried, roasted, cracked open, and their shells discarded, what results is a nib.
"Chocolate nibs are ground into a paste called chocolate liquor.
"Chocolate liquor can be separated into cocoa solids which provide the flavour, and cocoa butter, which is the fat."
The experts said the product must contain cocoa solids to qualify as chocolate - but white chocolate only contains cocoa butter.
For some, the news was too much to take - with some white chocolate lovers on Twitter branding their favourite treat a "lie".
One said: "So white chocolate isn't actually chocolate? The world is a lie!"
Another said: "My life is a lie because I thought that white chocolate was chocolate but it's not."
A third added: "White chocolate is a lie. It shouldn't be called chocolate. Fight me."
While a fourth - somewhat tongue in cheek - added: "White chocolate is the lie that broke my heart."
Another former fan declared: "White chocolate isn't chocolate and anyone who picks white chocolate is living a lie."
