Cadbury chocolate is a national treasure and a favourite among Britons. With lots of different flavours and chocolate bars on offer, shoppers can pick their poison.
Channel 4's Inside Cadbury: Chocolate Secrets Unwrapped explored how the most popular chocolates are made, and went behind the scenes at the factory in Bournville near Birmingham.
Cadbury Dairy Milk and the recipe has remained unchanged for more than 110 years. The narrator said: "The company's most important recipe has remained unchanged for 114 years. The top secret formula for Cadbury's Dairy Milk. But its main ingredients are not so secret. [They are] sugar, milk and cocoa."
While exact measurements of the ingredients are not publicly known, the documentary shared the base of the chocolates. Master chocolatier Paul commented: "People love Dairy Milk for the nostalgia of it because they were given it as a child. It was the first, or a very early, taste of fat and sugar and milk mixed together. Once you get fat and sugar mixed together with a bit of cocoa, you're hooked."
The much-loved chocolate bar has been made in the same place for years. It begins production in a building named the chocolate block. From there, the liquid chocolate runs through the entire factory like blood through its veins. The chocolate mixture is transported through stainless steel pipes in a constant stream. Bars are then produced through high tech machinery at a rate of around 400 bars per minute. Through this method, as many as 500 tonnes of chocolate can be produced each day. Once made, all chocolate goes to a warehouse in central Birmingham before being distributed across the country.
