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Cocoa Cake

Elephant brand Cocoa Cake is obtained by traditional pressing of cocoa mass made from finest cocoa beans of Ghana.  The mass is produced after careful selection, perfect roasting, hulling and milling of best cocoa nibs. This is fed into hydraulic presses to remove a specific percentage of the cocoa butter fat, leaving behind cocoa cake.

The cocoa cake is either broken into smaller pieces (kibbled) and sold into the generic cocoa cake market, or ground into a fine powder.

                                    

SPECIFICATION SHEET OF COCOA CAKE

 

1

QUALITY

SUITABLE  FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION ,NON ALKALINE FREE FROM ALL HARMFUL OR TOXIC SUBSTANCES

 

 

ORGANOLEPTIC PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

 

1

COLOR

LIGHT BROWN

2

ODOUR AND TASTE

TYPICAL COCOA SMELL , MUST NOT TASTE MOULDY OR BURNT, NO FLAVOUR ADDITIVES

3

MOISTURE

4.00%(MAX)

4

FAT

10.00-12.00%

5

Ph (10% SOLUTION)

5.20-5.60

6

FINESSS

98.50%(MIN) FINENESS THROUGH A 200 MESH SIEVE

7

TOTAL ASH

5.00-6.40%

8

WATER SOLUBLE ASH

3.00%(MAX)

9

WATER INSOLUBLE ASH

3.40%(MAX)

10

ACID INSOLUBLE ASH

0.20%(MAX)

11

SHELL CONTENT IN NIBS

1.75 %( MAX)

       

 

MICROBIOLOGICAL QUALITY

 

1

TOTAL PALTE COUNT

5000 PER GRAM (MAX)

2

YEAST

50 PER GRAM (MAX)

3

MOULDS

50 PER GRAM (MAX)

4

ESCHERICHIA COLI

ABSENT IN 1.0G

5

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE

ABSENT IN 1.0G

6

SALMONELLA

ABSENT IN 1.0G

 

PACKAGING

 

1

MATERIAL

IN 4 PLY KRAFT PAPER BAG WITH INNER POLYETHYLENE LINER

2

NET WEIGHT

25.00/40.00 KG

 

STORAGE

 

1

CONDITIONS

STORE COOL AND DRY AT 20° C (MAX ) AT 60 % RELATIVE HUMIDITY (MAX)

2

SHELF LIFE

TWO (2) YEARS IN ORIGINAL PACKAGING WHEN STORED PROPERLY

 

 



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