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Mexican Chocolate

Mexican chocolate is a cacao-based sweetened chocolate traditionally flavored with cinnamon and used in drinks, desserts, and mole.

Mexican Chocolate — illustrative ingredient image

About Mexican Chocolate

Mexican chocolate is a prepared cacao product combining chocolate or cocoa solids with sugar and traditionally cinnamon, often with additional spices or flavourings. It is used in hot drinks, desserts, and sauces such as mole, rather than being limited to one preparation.

Its flavour is recognizably cacao-based, sweet, and cinnamon-scented. Unlike finely refined couverture chocolate, it commonly has a coarse, slightly grainy texture. Intensity and texture vary with the sugar, cacao, added spices, and degree of grinding.

Mexican chocolate is commonly formed into discs, tablets, or other pieces. It may be dissolved or whisked into hot drinks, chopped into desserts, or incorporated into mole; these preparations disperse or soften its original coarse texture.

Ingredient type
compound ingredient

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English

Mexican Chocolate

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Mexican Chocolate nutrition & diet

Mexican Chocolate nutritional value

Baking chocolate, mexican, squares

Per 100 g of the edible portion in the recorded food form.

Calories
426kcal
Protein
3.6g
Carbs
77.4g
Fat
15.6g

Reference values for the specific food form shown. Other varieties, brands and preparations can differ.

Portions & preparation

Identify the Mexican chocolate formulation before using a reference: cacao percentage, sugar, cinnamon, other spices, and any added nuts or dairy. Match discs, tablets, powder, beverage, sauce, or dessert form, and define the edible portion after preparation because liquid and recipe ingredients alter the composition.

Compare the right form: Match the specific Mexican chocolate brand or recipe and its form—tablet, powder, drink, mole, or dessert—including all ingredients in the prepared portion.

Diet considerations

Mexican chocolate is primarily plant-derived cacao and sugar, but formulations may include dairy, nuts, cereal ingredients, or other flavorings. Compatibility changes with those additions and with preparation in milk, stock, or pastry. A small grated garnish, sweetened drink, and mole serving have different carbohydrate patterns according to recipe and portion.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Depends on the version
  • Vegetarian
    Depends on the version
  • Pescatarian
    Depends on the version
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Typically incompatible
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Depends on the version
Check the version or source of: Chocolate; Sugar. Optional or variable recorded ingredients: Cow Milk. The ingredient profile identifies an animal-derived food or derivative. Recipes and products can differ.
Vegetarian · Depends on the version
Check the version or source of: Chocolate; Sugar. Check the version or source of: Sugar. Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Pescatarian · Depends on the version
Check the version or source of: Chocolate; Sugar. Check the version or source of: Sugar. Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Typically incompatible
Recorded common ingredients: Sugar. This profile falls outside the conventional paleo pattern used here (grains and pseudograins, legumes, dairy or refined sugar). Recipes and products can differ.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: USDA FoodData Central — Baking chocolate, mexican, squares ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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