Milk chocolate
Chocolate con leche
- Date
- 1875 · confidence high
- Place
- Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Daniel Peter with Henri Nestle
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
After eight years of trials, Peter managed to blend cocoa paste with Nestle's condensed milk without leaving water that would turn the product rancid. It gave a bar smoother and sweeter than dark chocolate.
What it led to
- the Swiss chocolate industry
- popular, mass-consumption chocolate
- brands such as Nestle, Cailler and Lindt