People want or need low-fat chocolates to enjoy a guilt-free eating experience, maintain a diet or accommodate certain dietary restrictions. Now, reduced-fat chocolate is being created in an innovative way thanks to 3D printing and it’s ushering in a new future of functional foods.
A Rutgers scientist has developed a formulation for low-fat chocolate that can be printed by substituting cocoa butter with gum arabic-based water-in-oil emulsions. In these printed chocolates, varying levels of cocoa butter (25%, 50% and 75%) were swapped out to create chocolate with less fat.
This study successfully developed 3D-printed fat-reduced chocolate, and thanks to the capabilities of 3D printing, the chocolates have the potential to be created in all sorts of shapes and sizes.
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