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Nutella ( , , ; stylized in
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) is a brand of brown, sweetened
hazelnut The hazelnut is the fruit of the hazel tree and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus '' Corylus'', especially the nuts of the species ''Corylus avellana''. They are also known as cobnuts or filberts according to ...
cocoa spread. Nutella is manufactured by the Italian company
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and was introduced in 1964, although its first iteration dates to 1963.


History

Pietro Ferrero Pietro Ferrero (; 2 September 1898 – 2 March 1949) was the founder of Ferrero SpA, an Italian confectionery and chocolatier company. His company invented Nutella, a hazelnut-cream spread, which is now sold in over 160 countries. His company ( ...
owned a bakery in
Alba ''Alba'' ( , ) is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. It is also, in English-language historiography, used to refer to the polity of Picts and Scots united in the ninth century as the Kingdom of Alba, until it developed into the Kingd ...
, an Italian town known for the production of hazelnuts. In 1946, he sold the initial batch of ''Pasta Gianduja'', derived from '' gianduja''. Originally sold as a solid block, Ferrero started to sell a creamy version in 1951 as ''Supercrema gianduja''. In 1963, Ferrero's son
Michele Ferrero Michele Ferrero (; 26 April 1925 – 14 February 2015) was an Italian billionaire businessman. He owned the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA, Europe's second-largest confectionery company (at the time of his death), which he developed from th ...
, alongside
Francesco Rivella Francesco Rivella (8 August 1927 – 14 February 2025) was an Italian chocolatier and chemist known for his work with the expansion of the Ferrero brand, including the creation of the chocolate spread Nutella and the development of its recipe. ...
, revamped ''Supercrema gianduja'' with the intention of marketing it throughout Europe. Its composition was modified, and it was renamed "Nutella". The first jar of Nutella left the factory in Alba on April 20, 1964. The product was an instant success and remains widely popular. In 2012, French senator
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proposed a tax increase on
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from €100 to €400 per tonne. At 20 percent, palm oil is one of Nutella's main ingredients, and the tax was dubbed "the Nutella tax" in the media. That year, Ferrero settled a
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lawsuit in the US that alleged their advertisements misrepresented Nutella's healthiness by paying $3 million and removing advertising featuring the health claims. On 14 May 2014,
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issued a 50th anniversary Nutella
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. The 70
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cent stamp was designed by
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and features a jar of Nutella on a golden background. Ferrero held a Nutella Day on 17 and 18 May to celebrate the anniversary.


Ingredients

The main ingredients of Nutella are sugar and palm oil (greater than 50%). It also contains 13% hazelnuts, cocoa solids, and skimmed milk. In the United States and the United Kingdom, Nutella contains soy products. Nutella is marketed as "hazelnut cream" in many countries. Under Italian law, it cannot be labelled as a "chocolate cream", as it does not meet minimum cocoa solids concentration criteria. Each 220g jar of Nutella uses approximately 50 hazelnuts. Ferrero uses 25 percent of the global supply of hazelnuts, though not all of this is used exclusively in Nutella. In November 2017, the company modified the recipe slightly, increasing the sugar and skimmed milk powder content. Since the colour of the product is lighter in tone, the Hamburg Consumer Protection Center estimated that the cocoa content was also reduced. The traditional Piedmont recipe, '' gianduja'', is a mixture containing approximately 71.5% hazelnut paste and 19.5% chocolate. Nutella was developed in
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, Italy, due to a lack of cocoa beans after post-war rationing reduced the availability of the raw material.


Nutrition

Nutella contains 10.4 percent of
saturated fat A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all single bonds between the carbon atoms. A fat known as a glyceride is made of two kinds of smaller molecules: a short glycerol backbone, and fatty acids that each cont ...
and 58% of processed sugar by weight. A two-tablespoon (37-gram) serving of Nutella contains 200
calorie The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat. The large calorie, food calorie, dietary calorie, kilocalorie, or kilogram calorie is defined as the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one liter o ...
s, including 99 calories from 11 grams of fat (3.5 g of which are saturated) and 80 calories from 21 grams of sugar. The spread also contains 15 mg of
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and 2 g of
protein Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residue (biochemistry), residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including Enzyme catalysis, catalysing metab ...
per serving (for reference a Canadian serving size is 1 tablespoon or 19 grams).


Production

Nutella is produced in various facilities. In the North American market, it is produced at a plant in
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, Canada and more recently in
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,
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, Mexico. For Australia and New Zealand, Nutella has been manufactured in
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, since the late 1970s. Two of the four Ferrero plants in Italy produce Nutella, in
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, Piedmont, and in
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in Campania. In France, a production facility is located in
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. For Eastern Europe (including Southeast Europe, Poland, Turkey, Czech Republic and Slovakia) and South Africa, it is produced in
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and
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. For Germany and northern Europe, Nutella is produced at the Ferrero plant in
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, which has been in existence since 1956. Nutella entered the Russian market and also has a production plant in Vladimir. Ferrero also has a plant in
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, Brazil, which supplies the Brazilian market, with part of the production being exported overseas. It is also manufactured in Turkey and exported to countries such as India. Global production in 2013 was about 350,000 tonnes.


Processing

Nutella is described as a chocolate and hazelnut spread, although it is mostly made of sugar and palm oil. The manufacturing process for this food item is very similar to a generic production of
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. Nutella is made from sugar, modified
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,
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s,
cocoa powder Dry cocoa solids are the components of cocoa beans remaining after cocoa butter, the fatty component of the bean, is extracted from chocolate liquor, roasted cocoa beans that have been ground into a liquid state. Cocoa butter is 46% to 57% of the ...
,
skimmed milk Skimmed milk (British English), or skim milk (American English), is made when all the milkfat is removed from whole milk. It tends to contain around 0.1% to 0.3% fat. Background Historically, skimmed milk was used for fattening pigs, and was re ...
powder, whey powder,
soy lecithin Lecithin ( ; from the Ancient Greek "yolk") is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues which are amphiphilic – they attract both water and fatty substances (and so are ...
, and
vanillin Vanillin is an organic compound with the molecular formula . It is a phenolic aldehyde. Its functional groups include aldehyde, hydroxyl, and ether. It is the primary component of the ethanolic extract of the vanilla bean. Synthetic vanillin ...
. The process of making this spread begins with the extraction of cocoa powder from the cocoa bean. These cocoa beans are harvested from cocoa trees and are left to dry for about ten days before being shipped for processing. Typically, cocoa beans contain approximately 50 percent of cocoa butter; therefore, they must be roasted to reduce the cocoa bean into a liquid form. This step is not sufficient for turning cocoa bean into a chocolate paste because it solidifies at room temperature and would not be spreadable. After the initial roast, the liquid paste is sent to presses, which are used to squeeze the butter out of the cocoa bean. The final products are round discs of chocolate made of pure compressed cocoa. The cocoa butter is transferred elsewhere so it can be used in other products. The second process involves the hazelnuts. Once the hazelnuts have arrived at the processing plant, a quality control is issued to inspect the nuts so they are suitable for processing. A guillotine is used to chop the nuts to inspect the interior. After this process, the hazelnuts are cleaned and roasted. A second quality control is issued by a computer-controlled blast of air, which removes the bad nuts from the batch. This ensures that each jar of Nutella is uniform in its look and taste. Approximately 50 hazelnuts can be found in each jar of Nutella, as claimed by the company. The cocoa powder is then mixed with the hazelnuts along with sugar, vanillin and skim milk in a large tank, until it becomes a paste-like spread. Modified palm oil is then added to help retain the solid phase of the Nutella at room temperature, which substitutes for the butter found in the cocoa bean. Whey powder is then added to the mix to act as a binder for the paste. Whey powder is an additive commonly used in spreads to prevent the coagulation of the product, because it stabilizes the fat emulsions. Similarly, lecithin, a form of a fatty substance found in animal and plant tissues, is added to help emulsify the paste, as it promotes homogenized mixing of the different ingredients, allowing the paste to become spreadable. It also aids the lipophilic properties of the cocoa powder, which, again, keeps the product from separating. Vanillin is added to enhance the sweetness of the chocolate. The finished product is then packaged.


Use

Within Europe, Nutella is a popular topping for pancakes among children in Ireland, often fills the peach-shaped ''breskvice'' cookies in
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, replacing the traditional jam and is spread atop baguettes in France, creating open sandwiches eaten with coffee for breakfast. Outside of Europe, Nutella is used to fill sandwiches in
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, which are then eaten as an afternoon snack.


See also

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List of brand name condiments This is a list of brand name condiments. A condiment is a supplemental food, such as a sauce, that is added to some foods to impart a particular flavor, enhance its flavor, or in some cultures, to complement the dish. The term originally describe ...
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Ferrero Rocher Ferrero Rocher ( , , ; stylized in all caps) is a brand of chocolate and hazelnut confectionery , confection manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero SpA, Ferrero. Michele Ferrero is credited as the product's creator. Each Ferrero Rocher bal ...
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Nocilla Nocilla is a Spanish brand of hazelnut and chocolate spread similar to Nutella, sold in Spain and Portugal. It was first launched in the late 1960s, and after its acquisition from Unilever in 2002 was manufactured by Nutrexpa. Slogan ''Le ...
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Nudossi Nudossi () is a brand of sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread manufactured by the Saxon and Dresdner baking and confectionery GmbH & Co. KG ,formerly known as Vadossi. In its plastic container with a red lid, Nudossi is the manufacturer's best-known p ...


References


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* {{Authority control Cuisine of Piedmont Spreads (food) Ferrero SpA brands Italian brands Products introduced in 1964 Brand name condiments Hazelnut dishes