Casein In Chocolate?

[gointribal]

Is casein in chocolate, chocolate chips, hot cocoa or butter? If so are there some of these things that are casein free that you could recomend?

[jenvan]

Absolutely...most chocolate has dairy in it. There are 2 brands I know of that are casein free: enjoylife's chocolate chips, and all of Tropical Sources chocolate products. Do note TS has soy in it though. I think their chocolate, espeically the chips are excellent. This is TS's website, unfortunately nspired foods, their parent company, is redoing their websites, so this might not be up for a while: Open Original Shared Link Just so you can get familiar with the label, if you haven't seen it before, go here and see the choc. bars featured at the top of the page: Open Original Shared Link

PS--Tropical source makes their chocolate in a dedicated gluten-free/cf facility now

[tarnalberry]

Is casein in chocolate, chocolate chips, hot cocoa or butter? If so are there some of these things that are casein free that you could recomend?

You have to read the labels. Cocao beans don't contain any casein - they're a plant. So, if casein isn't added to the processing of the beans, there won't be any casein in the final product. Milk chocolate, for instance, has milk added to it, so of course it will contain casein. Hot cocoa, if it's made with milk, will have had milk added to it, so of course it will contain casein. Butter is made from milk directly, so it too must contain casein. You can get chocolate chips that don't have casein added (look for ones without milk added) and you can make hot cocoa without milk by using plain cocoa powder and mixing with a dairy free milk substitute (adding sugar if necessary).

[Nancym]

Trader Joe's has quite a few very dark chocolates that don't contain any milk. Also Lindt has some bittersweet chocolate without milk (I believe).