White chocolate 2004, white chocolate must be (by weight) at least 20% cocoa butter, 14% total milk solids, and 3.5% milk fat, and no more than 55% sugar or other sweeteners. Before this date, American firms required temporary marketing permits to sell white chocolate. The European Union has adopted the same standards, except that there is no limit on sugar or sweeteners. In the 1930s, the white chocolate Milkybar was launched in Europe by Swiss company Nestlé. In North America, Kuno Baedeker developed a white chocolate while working for the Merckens Chocolate Company in 1945. White chocolate White chocolate does not contain
Nestlé Milk Chocolate Chocolate bars were available in 1.45-oz (41.1-g) bars, as well as in boxes of 24. Nestlé Milk Chocolate Nestlé Milk Chocolate was a chocolate bar consisting of milk chocolate, produced by Nestlé. Nestlé Milk Chocolate was sold in many countries around the world, including the United States and Canada. It has now been discontinued by Nestlé. According to a source, "Nestlé milk chocolate bars were first introduced in the US in 1919." Another source claims, "The original milk chocolate formula [was] invented in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1875 by Henri Nestle." According to Nestle, the bar was discontinued in 2016. Nestlé