“…Chocolates are prepared using various starting materials, such as sugar, milk powder, cocoa mass, and cocoa butter, with or without optional ingredients allowed by the Food and Agricultural Organization. [1,2] To date, various types of hard butter have been used as substitutes for cocoa butter; these substitutes which are not inexpensive only, but also enable controlling the melting point of chocolate products, are becoming increasingly popular with the recent diversification of chocolate products. [2,3] However, some countries, such as Brazil, restrict the addition of fats (e.g., coconut, cotton, palm, and soybeans) to chocolate products as a substitute for cocoa butter; other countries, including Japan, England, Denmark, and Ireland, allow the substitution of cocoa butter up to 5%-15% of the total chocolate mass or the fat mass of chocolate.…”