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Nature Chemistry (20 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchem.27
Food chemistry: Cocoa crystal conundrum
Abstract
The ability of a solid substance to exist in more than one crystalline form — a phenomenon known as polymorphism — is responsible for fat bloom in chocolate. Cocoa butter can adopt six different crystal forms and only one of these has the most desirable properties.
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