Cocoa solids require the addition of extra cocoa butter to cocoa liquor, leading to a cocoa solids surplus and thus a relatively cheap supply of cocoa powder. This contrasts with the earliest European usage of cocoa where, before milk and dark chocolate was popularized, cocoa powder was the primary product and cocoa butter was little more than a waste product. Cocoa solids contain flavanol antioxidants, amounts of which are reduced if the cocoa is subjected to acid-reducing alkalization. Health benefits have been attributed to cocoa flavonoids. Natural cocoa powder has a light brown color and an extractable pH of 5.3 to 5.8.
Nestlé Milk Chocolate 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 Milk Chocolate was created as a competitor to the more-established, and North American chocolate bar