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
N°
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
N°
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
N°
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
N°
-
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
N°
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
N°
476
Food Additive or Group
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
N°
477
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
-
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
N°
-
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
N°
-
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
N°
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
N°
-
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
N°
-
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.
- 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).
- Food Chemistry, H.-D. Belitz & W. Grosch, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1987, pp. 708-711.