EXTRACTS OF COCOA, COCOA-PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION THEREOF Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC A23G1/00 A23G1/02 A23G1/04 A23G1/06 A23G1/10 A23G1/30 A23G1/32 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to confectionery industry. Method of treating cocoa beans or grains, comprising the steps of: (a) adding water to cocoa beans or grains to form a slurry; (b) wet grinding the specified suspension; (c) heat treating said suspension at a temperature of 70 °C or below; (d) separating the suspension into an aqueous phase (heavy phase), a fatty phase (light phase) containing cocoa butter, and a solid phase containing cocoa powder and liquid components; (e) continuous separation of the liquid components from the solid phase obtained in step (d) to obtain cocoa flavors and cocoa powder by feeding a stream of said solid phase to the mixing device. Said mixing device comprises cylindrical tubular body (1) with horizontal axis (2), having inlet (3) for the solid phase, outlet (4) for the dried solid phase and outlet (10) for the vapor phase containing cocoa flavors; end plates (5, 5^'), closing opposite ends of tubular body (1); coaxial shirt (6), heating or cooling inner wall (7) of tubular body (1) to a temperature of 55–150 °C; and blade rotor (8) with the possibility of rotation in a tubular body, with the rotor blades arranged in a spiral and directed to centrifuge the solid phase and simultaneously transport it to the outlet. Invention relates to cocoa powder, obtained by the above method. Invention relates to a method for producing chocolate or chocolate products, as well as to chocolate or chocolate products, which provide for the aforementioned stages of processing cocoa beans or grains, mixing the resulting cocoa powder with at least one component selected from cocoa flavor, cocoa butter or polyphenolic powder and conching the mixture.

EFFECT: proposed method allows to reduce the thermal load on the solid phase and at the same time maintain high concentrations of flavors with the smell of roast, higher total content of primary flavors, polyphenols, antioxidants and/or vitamins, to ensure the development of rich aromas with the smell of roast and grill.

14 cl, 5 dwg, 2 tbl