Debate over Reese's ingredients leads to planned recipe changes from Hershey [Yahoo! Finance]
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But what's inside some of those products has become the center of a growing controversy. Brad Reese, grandson of Reese's founder H. B. Reese, has been outspoken in criticizing ingredient changes in some Reese's products. “It's no longer chocolate. It doesn't have any cocoa butter in it,” Reese said. He alleges that some of its products no longer use traditional chocolate ingredients. “What they've done is they've substituted vegetable oils for cocoa butter,” Reese said. “You might remember Reese's Sticks that came out in 1998 as ‘the crisp you can't resist.' That was no longer milk chocolate. It was ‘chocolate candy.' It has become junk and bad for you.” The differences can often be found directly on packaging. Classic Reese's Cups are labeled as milk chocolate, with ingredients that include cocoa butter, the natural fat found in chocolate. Other products, such as some seasonal or smaller items, may instead be labeled “chocolate candy” with ingredient lists that include
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