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A process for the manufacture of chocolate crumb and chocolate crumb and confectionery products made using the process. The process comprises: a) providing a milk and sugar mixture or mixing together, milk and sugar so as to form a mixture; b) evaporating liquid from the mixture so as to form sweetened condensed milk; c) adding and mixing cocoa mass/liquor to the sweetened condensed; d) subjecting the sweetened condensed milk and cocoa mass/liquor mixture to conditions effective to bring about sugar crystallisation in the mixture; e) drying the mixture so as to form chocolate crumb; and f) seeding the mixture with sugar during and/or between one or more of steps (c) to (e). The mixture is seeded with sugar so as to promote crystallisation prior to and/or during and/or after sugar crystallisation.

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