If you like white chocolate, then we hate to break it to you but you're not actually eating chocolate.
According to confectionery experts, the sweet treat is made with a blend of sugar, cocoa butter, milk products, vanilla, and a fatty substance called lecithin.
Technically, white chocolate isn't classed as a chocolate because it isn't made with chocolate solids - like milk and dark chocolate.
"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 flavor, and cocoa butter, which is the fat.
"Though white chocolate contains extracted cocoa butter, it lacks the component that defines real chocolate," the experts at food magazine Bon Appétit say.
It's not clear when white chocolate was created, but the general census is that the Nestlé company came up with it in 1930. The first white chocolate bar was introduced to the world on March 5.
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