Red meat hardly seems like the perfect ingredient for delicious chocolate, but a New Zealand-based food scientist is willing to bet that his high-protein, 50% beef chocolate recipe is going to be a hit.
红肉似乎很难算做是美味巧克力的完美的原料，但新西兰食品科学家愿意打赌他的高蛋白含量，50%牛肉配方的巧克力绝对可以成功。

Mustafa Farouk, Senior Food Technologist has partnered with Auckland boutique chocolate maker Devonport Chocolates to bring meat chocolate to the masses. The quirky idea of combining the two very different ingredients came to Dr. Farouk one day, while looking at ways of adding value to beef and pondering ways the staple food might be consumed in the future. Mixing beef and chocolate seemed like the perfect way for people to get proteins and other nutrients in meat, because chocolate is such a popular dessert.
高级食物工程师穆斯塔法·法鲁克与奥克兰精品巧克力生产商德文波特巧克力为大众带来了鲜肉巧克力。有一天当法鲁克看到给牛肉加佐料的方法，就在想未来主食将会以某种方式被消耗，因此他想到了这个将两种不同的原料（巧克力和鲜肉）结合起来的主意。混合牛肉和巧克力似乎是让人们获得蛋白质和其他营养肉的绝佳途径，因为巧克力是如此受欢迎的甜点。

So Farouk took a very lean cut from the hind quarter of a Waikato-raised bovine, turned into what he calls “chocolate butter”, which I assume is a sort of fine paste, and handed it over to Devonport Chocolates to use in their confectionery.
因此，法鲁克将一头怀卡托养殖的牛后退四分之一处的肉精选了一些，然后做成他所谓的“巧克力奶油”，我假设就是一种精致的糊状物，然后交给德文波特巧克力供他们在产品中使用。

The resulting combination reportedly has a consistency similar to a Turkish delight, and while the food scientist admits you can tell that it’s not regular chocolate, the taste of meat is almost impossible to pick up.
由此产生的组合据说味道类似于土耳其软糖，食物科学家承认你可以辨别这不是普通的巧克力，而且肉的味道也无从辨别。

Beef chocolate started out as a crazy experiment, but its creator now wants to make it commercially viable. “Devonport are very excited about it and it’s highly likely that we’ll partner with them and try to get it into the market,” he said. “And once people realise the advantages of having this, I’m sure it will take off.” The meat required to make this bizarre treat would cost an estimated $17 a kilogram, and turned into chocolates, it would retail at $2.50 a cube.
牛肉巧克力开始了疯狂的实验，但现在它的创造者想让它商业上有可行性价值。“德文波特非常兴奋，我们很可能会与他们合作,试着把它推向市场。”法鲁克说。“一旦人们意识到吃牛肉巧克力的好处，我确信它一定会成功。”制作这道怪异的美味所需要的牛肉大约是17美金每公斤的牛肉，而后将他们变成巧克力，零售价将会是每立方2.5美金。

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