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Cocoa Butter Equivalents (CBE)
Vegetable fats (palm oil mid-fractions, shea butter, illipe, sal) blended to match cocoa butter SOS triglyceride profile. EU Chocolate Directive 2000/36/EC permits up to 5% CBE by weight in labeled chocolate. Major cost-reduction lever during cocoa price spikes. Market valued at $1.23B in 2024. Palm oil segment = 39% of CBE market.
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1 essential American goods rely on cocoa butter equivalents (cbe) somewhere upstream in their supply chain.