cocoa powder
Sensory Indicators:
Item | Indicators |
Powder color | Brownish yellow to light brown |
Liquor Color | Light brownish red |
Fragrance and Taste | Natural cocoa fragrance, without burning smell, musty odor, or other odors |
Physical and Chemical Indicators:
Item | Indicators |
Cocoa butter% | 10-12 |
Moisture% | ≤5 |
Ash (dry defatted) | ≤8 |
Fineness (200 mesh/inch) standard screening pass rate | ≥99.00 |
PH value | 5.0~5.8 |
Health Indicators:
Item | Indicators |
Total number of bacterial colonies, colony/g ≤ | 5000 |
Microzyme each/g ≤ | 50 |
Mould, each/g≤ | 30 |
Coliform colonies, colony/100g≤ | 30 |
Pathogenic bacterium | not allowed |