COMPARATIVE STUDY ON NUTRITIONAL PROPERTIES OF SOME CHOCOLATE SORT TRADED ON THE TIMIȘOARA MARKET

GABRIELA NELUȚA RISTACHE, MARIANA CAREBA, DIANA NICOLETA RABA, LUMINIȚA CORNELIA PÎRVULESCU

Abstract


Chocolate is one of the most popular and appreciated food products in the word being consumed equally by children, adults and the elderly. Chocolate is not only a tasty product but is also valuable because it represents one of the most concentrated sources of natural antioxidant compounds, named flavonoids. Today many varieties of chocolate are made worldwide and this is the reason why this study was conducted. It was calculated the energy value, nutritional value and the nutritional value index of five chocolate sorts: dark, white, with strawberry filling, with penuts and with milk. The results showed that the the highest energy value was registred by chocolate with peanuts (2477kJ/100 and 593kcal/100g) and the lowest energy value was calculated in case of white chocolate (2171kJ/100g and 519kcal/100g). The highest protein content was calculated for milk chocolate and white chocolate (14,6g/100g), the richest in carbohydrated was white chocolate (49,8g/100g) and the bigest total lipids content was determined in case of chocolate with peanuts. The values index of chocolate with peanuts was the highest of all calculated values and correlates with the energy value of this sort.


Keywords


nutrition; chocolate; Romanian market

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