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The invention provides food products, including confectioneries and chocolates, having conserved concentrations of polyphenols, and in particular cocoa polyphenols. The method of this invention avoids the significant and detrimental losses of polyphenols that occur during conventional manufacture by

The invention provides food products, including confectioneries and chocolates, having conserved concentrations of polyphenols, and in particular cocoa polyphenols. The method of this invention avoids the significant and detrimental losses of polyphenols that occur during conventional manufacture by controlling the handling of ingredients in batching processing to provide a product having a significant amount of the cocoa polyphenol concentration present in the raw materials conserved in the finished product. Additionally, the production steps of milling/refining and conching may also be controlled and modified to provide the confectioneries of the present invention having conserved concentrations of cocoa polyphenols relative to the concentration of the polyphenols present in the starting ingredients. The cocoa polyphenol ingredient may be a cocoa ingredient, an extract of a cocoa ingredient (beans, liquor, or powder, etc.) or may be a synthesized derivative thereof, or may be a synthesized polyphenol compound or mixture of polyphenol compounds or derivative thereof.

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[What is claimed is:] [1.](a) pretreating the carbohydrate ingredient(s), the milk ingredient(s), or the carbohydrate ingedient(s) and milk ingredient(s) with one or more pretreatment ingredients selected from the group consisting of an antioxidant, an emulsifier, a fat, a flavorant, and mixtures th

[What is claimed is:] [1.](a) pretreating the carbohydrate ingredient(s), the milk ingredient(s), or the carbohydrate ingedient(s) and milk ingredient(s) with one or more pretreatment ingredients selected from the group consisting of an antioxidant, an emulsifier, a fat, a flavorant, and mixtures thereof to form a first mixture;(b) adding the cocoa polyphenol-containing cocoa ingredient(s) to the first mixture to form a second mixture; and(c) processing the second mixture into the cocoa-containing product.