Cocoa mixes (powders) and cocoa mass/cake (05.1.1.0)

Description

Includes a variety of products that are used in the manufacture of other chocolate products or in the preparation of cocoa-based beverages. Most cocoa products have their origin in the cocoa nib, which is obtained from cocoa beans that have been cleaned and freed from the shells. Cocoa mass is obtained from the mechanical disintegration of the nib. Depending on the desired finished chocolate product, the cocoa nib or mass may be treated by an alkalinization process that mellows the flavor. Cocoa dust is the fraction of the cocoa bean produced as a product during winnowing and degerming. Cocoa powder is produced by reducing the fat content of cocoa mass or liquor by pressing (including expeller pressing) and molding into a cocoa press cake. The cocoa press cake is disintegrated and ground to cocoa powder. Cocoa liquor is a homogeneous flowing paste produced from the cocoa nib, which has been roasted, dried, disintegrated and milled. Cocoa-sugar mixtures contain only cocoa powder and sugar. Chocolate powder for beverages is made from cocoa liquor or cocoa powder and sugar to which flavouring (e.g. vanillin) may be added.1, 2 Examples include: drinking chocolate powder; breakfast cocoa; cocoa dust (fines), nibs, mass, press cake; chocolate liquor; cocoa mixes (powders for preparing the hot beverage); cocoa-sugar mixture; and dry mixes for sugar-cocoa confectionery. Finished cocoa beverages and chocolate milk are included in category 01.1.4, and most finished chocolate products are included in category 05.1.4.

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

GSFA Provisions for Food Category 05.1.1.0

INS No

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

Notes

Defined In

950

350 mg/kg

188: If used in combination with aspartame-acesulfame salt (INS 962), the combined maximum use level, expressed as acesulfame potassium, should not exceed this level.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

05.1.1.0

950

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

350 mg/kg

Notes

188: If used in combination with aspartame-acesulfame salt (INS 962), the combined maximum use level, expressed as acesulfame potassium, should not exceed this level.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

Defined In

05.1.1.0

442

10000 mg/kg

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

05.1.1.0

442

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

10000 mg/kg

Notes

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

Defined In

05.1.1.0

951

3000 mg/kg

191: If used in combination with aspartame-acesulfame salt (INS 962), the combined maximum use level, expressed as aspartame, should not exceed this level.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

05.1.1.0

951

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

3000 mg/kg

Notes

191: If used in combination with aspartame-acesulfame salt (INS 962), the combined maximum use level, expressed as aspartame, should not exceed this level.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

Defined In

05.1.1.0

-

1100 mg/kg

33: As phosphorus.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

05.1.1.0

-

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

1100 mg/kg

Notes

33: As phosphorus.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

Defined In

05.1.1.0

475

5000 mg/kg

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

05.1.1.0

475

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

5000 mg/kg

Notes

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

Defined In

05.1.1.0

476

5000 mg/kg

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

05.1.1.0

476

Max Level

5000 mg/kg

Notes

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

Defined In

05.1.1.0

477

5000 mg/kg

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

05.1.1.0

477

Max Level

5000 mg/kg

Notes

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

Defined In

05.1.1.0

-

100 mg/kg

161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

05.1.1.0

-

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

100 mg/kg

Notes

161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

Defined In

05.1.1.0

-

2000 mg/kg

123: For use of sorbitan monostearate (INS 491), sorbitan tristearate (INS 492), sorbitan monolaurate (INS 493), sorbitan monooleate (INS 494), and sorbitan monopalmitate (INS 495) in combination up to a maximum level of 2000 mg/kg on the final cocoa and chocolate basis as emulsifiers in products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa Powders (Cocoas) and Dry Mixtures of Cocoa and Sugars (CODEX STAN 105-1981).

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

05.1.1.0

-

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

2000 mg/kg

Notes

123: For use of sorbitan monostearate (INS 491), sorbitan tristearate (INS 492), sorbitan monolaurate (INS 493), sorbitan monooleate (INS 494), and sorbitan monopalmitate (INS 495) in combination up to a maximum level of 2000 mg/kg on the final cocoa and chocolate basis as emulsifiers in products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa Powders (Cocoas) and Dry Mixtures of Cocoa and Sugars (CODEX STAN 105-1981).

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

Defined In

05.1.1.0

955

580 mg/kg

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

05.1.1.0

955

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

580 mg/kg

Notes

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

Defined In

05.1.1.0

-

10000 mg/kg

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

05.1.1.0

-

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

10000 mg/kg

Notes

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

XS141: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/chocolate liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1983).

Defined In

05.1.1.0

-

5000 mg/kg

128: Tartaric acid (INS 334) only.

45: As tartaric acid.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

05.1.1.0

-

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

5000 mg/kg

Notes

128: Tartaric acid (INS 334) only.

45: As tartaric acid.

97: On the final cocoa and chocolate product basis.

Defined In

05.1.1.0

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Note: Items in uppercase (e.g. PHOSPHATES) refer to food additive groups.

  1. Standard for Cocoa Powders (Cocoa) and Dry Mixtures of Cocoa and Sugar (CODEX STAN 105-1981); Standard for Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/Chocolate Liquor) and Cocoa Cake (CODEX STAN 141-1981).
  2. Food Chemistry, H.-D. Belitz & W. Grosch, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1987, pp. 708-711.