Ferrero Rocher

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Ferrero Rocher (French pronunciation: 

[ʁɔʃe]) is a chocolate and hazelnut
confectionery produced by the Italian
chocolatier Ferrero.
 Ferrero Rocher

Type Chocolate
Place of origin Italy
Created by Ferrero
Main ingredients Milk chocolate,
hazelnut, sugar, palm
oil, wheat flour
Food energy 76.6 kcal (321 kJ)
(per serving)

Cookbook: Ferrero Rocher

  Media: Ferrero Rocher

History
The Ferrero Rocher was introduced in
1982 in Europe. Shortly after release,
production was halted due to a problem
with label printing.[1][2] Michele Ferrero, the
credited inventor, named the chocolate
after a grotto in the Roman Catholic shrine
of Lourdes, Rocher de Massabielle.[3]
Rocher comes from the French and means
rock or boulder.[4]

Layer by layer comparison of the Ferrero Rocher

Ingredients
The chocolate consisted of a whole
roasted hazelnut (but since late 2017, only
part of a hazelnut had been used) encased
in a thin wafer shell filled with hazelnut
chocolate and covered in milk chocolate
and chopped hazelnuts.[5] Its ingredients
are milk chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter,
cocoa mass, skim milk powder, butteroil,
lecithin as emulsifier (soy), vanillin
(artificial flavor), hazelnuts, palm oil, wheat
flour, whey (milk), lowfat cocoa powder,
sodium bicarbonate (leavening agent), and
salt.[6]

Production
The production process is secretive, with
no smartphones or notebooks allowed
inside, and, as of 2015, few journalists
have ever been invited to visit.[7] As of
2015, the production in the Alba factory
totals 24 million Rochers a day.[7]

The sweet is produced by machinery. The

process begins with flat sheets of wafer
with hemispheres moving down an
assembly line.[8] The hemispheres of the
wafers are then filled with a chocolate
hazelnut cream and part of a hazelnut.
Next, two of these wafer sheets, one with
a hazelnut and one with hazelnut
chocolate cream, are clamped together.
The excess wafer is cut away producing
wafer balls. These balls are then coated
with a layer of chocolate, a layer of
chopped hazelnuts, and a final layer of
chocolate[8] before the chocolate is
packaged.[2]

Ferrero Rocher in 24-pack boxes being sold during the

Christmas Season

Distribution
Roughly 3.6 billion Ferrero Rochers are
sold each year in over 40 countries.[9]
These include 28 countries in Europe, 9
countries in the Americas, 9 countries in
Asia, 2 countries in the Oceania region,
and 2 countries in Africa.[10]

Cultural impact

A Ferrero Rocher in packaging

Christmas
Ferrero Rochers are associated with
Christmas and New Year. As of 2015, 61%
of Ferrero Rochers were sold during the
last three months of the year.[7]

United Kingdom advertisement

campaign

In the United Kingdom in the 1990s, an

advertisement series was based upon a
party in a European ambassador's official
residence and it has been repeatedly
parodied in popular culture since.[11] In
2000, the ambassador’s party commercial
was ranked 21st in Channel 4’s poll of the
"100 Greatest Adverts".[12]
Hong Kong and China

Ferrero Rocher chocolates, along with

baby formula, are one of the top items
smuggled across the border from Hong
Kong into mainland China[13].

Criticisms
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Deforestation

In September 2017, an investigation[14]

conducted by NGO Mighty Earth found
that a large amount of the cocoa used in
chocolate produced by Ferrero Rocher and
other major chocolate companies was
grown illegally in national parks and other
protected areas in Ivory Coast and
Ghana.[15][16] The countries are the world's
two largest cocoa producers.[17][18]

The report documents how in several

national parks and other protected areas,
90% or more of the land mass has been
converted to cocoa.[19] Less than four
percent of Ivory Coast remains densely
forested, and the chocolate companies'
laissez-faire approach to sourcing has
driven extensive deforestation in Ghana as
well.[20] In Ivory Coast, deforestation has
pushed chimpanzees into just a few small
pockets, and reduced the country's
elephant population from several hundred
thousand to about 200–400.[21][22][23]

See also
Gianduja (chocolate)
Gianduiotto

References
1. "Inside Italy's real life 'Willy Wonka'
chocolate factory: How world's richest
chocolatier invented Ferrero Rocher,
Nutella, Kinder and hid secret recipes
in Arabic in Cairo to keep them from
 spies" . Daily mail. 10 November 2015.
Retrieved 25 December 2016.
2. Allen, Lawrence L. (1 January 2010).
Chocolate Fortunes: The Battle for the
Hearts, Minds, and Wallets of China's
Consumers . AMACOM Div American
Mgmt Assn. ISBN 9780814414323.
3. Caldwell, Zelda (8 May 2018). "How
Ferrero Rocher chocolates were
inspired by the Virgin Mary" . Aleteia.
4. "rocher - traduction - Dictionnaire
Français-Anglais" .
WordReference.com.
5. "A Brilliant Idea …" . Ferrero Rocher.
 6. "Ferrero Rocher" . ferrero.ca. Retrieved
14 July 2016.
7. Sarah Butler (30 October 2015). "Full
steam ahead at Ferrero factory as
chocolatier eyes No 1 spot in UK" .
The Guardian.
8. "Loynds Ferrero Rocher Type
Production Line" . Loynds. 29
December 2013. Retrieved 13 July
2016 – via YouTube.
9. Iyoob, Umar. "Report on Ferrero
(Rocher)" . Scribd. Retrieved 16 July
2016.
10. "Ferrero - Worldwide" . Ferrero.
Retrieved 16 July 2016.
11. Wood, Zoe (17 November 2009).
"Family behind Ferrero Rocher linked
to deal with Cadbury" . The Guardian.
London.
12. "The 100 Greatest TV Ads" . London:
Channel 4. 2000. Archived from the
original on 18 June 2001. Retrieved
4 August 2019.
13. Sturzel, Winston (11 January 2018).
"Milk and Chocolate SMUGGLING
worse than HEROIN smuggling in
China!" . Serpentza (YouTube
channel).
14. "Chocolate's Dark Secret" . September
2017.
15. “Olam to acquire global cocoa
business of Archer Daniels Midland for
$1.7 billion. ” Straits Times. 16
December 2014.
16. “Olam Livelihood Charter 2016:
Equipping smallholders to secure their
future Archived 7 November 2017 at
the Wayback Machine,” Olam, 2016.
17. Wessel, Marius; Quist-Wessel, P.M.
Foluke (2015). "Cocoa production in
West Africa, a review and analysis of
recent developments". Njas -
Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences.
74-75: 1–7.
doi:10.1016/j.njas.2015.09.001 .
18. “How Much Rainforest Is in That
Chocolate Bar? ” World Resources
Institute. 6 August 2015.
19. “Cocoa farming and primate
extirpation inside The Ivory Coast's
protected areas. ” Tropical
Conservation Science. 8.1(2015): 95-
113.
20. “Analyse qualitative des facteurs de
déforestation et de dégradation des
forêts en Côte d'Ivoire "; Rapport Final,
10 November 2016
21. Covey, R. and McGraw, W. S. “Monkeys
in a West African bushmeat market:
implications for cercopithecid
 conservation in eastern Liberia. ”
Tropical Conservation Science. 7.1
(2014): 115-125.
22. Marchesi, P., Marchesi, N., Fruth, B.,
and Boesch, C. “Census and
Distribution of Chimpanzees in Cote
D’Ivoire. ” PRIMATES. 36.4(1995): 591-
607.
23. “Poaching contributes to forest
elephant declines in Côte d’Ivoire, new
numbers reveal. ” WWF. 05 September
2011.

External links
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related to Ferrero Rocher.

Ferrero UK website
Ferrero U.S. website
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