Chocolate Topping

Sugar, or sucrose, provides sweetness and texture to foods, and is made by evaporating water from the syrup of sugar cane or sugar beets until sugar crystals form. Sugar may be granulated, or very finely ground into powder when a finer texture is desired.

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Vegetable oil is used as an ingredient in food, and may be extracted from any vegetable source, such as beans, seeds or nuts. Common sources are corn, canola, cottonseed, soybean, coconut, sunflower, palm and palm kernel.

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Coconut oil provides texture and flavor to a variety of foods, and is the edible oil extracted from coconut palm fruit. Unrefined coconut oil, or Extra Virgin coconut oil, tastes and smells like coconut, while refined coconut oil does not.

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Cocoa gives chocolate its flavor; it is the dry powder from dried, roasted, hulled cocoa beans from which some fat has been removed.

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Chocolate, or chocolate liquor, provides flavor and texture to a variety of foods, and is made from the fermented, dried and roasted seeds of the cacao tree. Chocolate liquor alone is bitter and is often combined with sugar and other ingredients to create different types including semisweet, dark and milk chocolate.

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This product contains soybean ingredients.

This product contains milk ingredients.

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The J.M. Smucker Company is committed to complying with federal GMO labeling regulations, specifically the Bioengineered Foods Disclosure Act. These regulations will require labeling of foods that contain bioengineered (GMO) ingredients. Disclosure must be through text, a symbol, or a scannable code, such as a SmartLabel^™ QR code. Once the government has fully developed the language and guidelines for labeling, Smucker will implement these requirements across all products with genetically modified ingredients.