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with alkaline salts. The cocoa so treated is generally 

 described as " soluble," although its only claim to this 

 name is that the mineral salts in the cocoa are rendered 

 more soluble by the treatment. It is also sometimes 

 incorrectly described as containing alkali, but actually no 

 alkali is present in the cocoa either in a free state or as 



BOXING CHOCOLATES. 



carbonate ; the potassium exists " in the form of phos- 

 phates or combinations of organic acids, that is to say, 

 in the ideal form in which these bodies occur in foods 

 of animal and vegetable origin " (Fritsch, Fabrication 

 du Chocolat^ p. 216). 



Food Value of Chocolate. 



I ate a little chocolate from my supply, well knowing the miracu- 

 lous sustaining powers of the simple little block (from Mr. Isaacs, 

 by F. Marion Crawford). 



Whilst the food value of cocoa powder is very high 



