Vegelate

The term vegelate is sometimes used pejoratively to describe chocolate that contains fats other than cocoa butter, the fat obtained from the cocoa bean.

In some nations, including Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom, some popular chocolate products contain a proportion of vegetable fat (normally up to 5%). Elsewhere, such fats are not used, and in some areas (principally Spain and Italy) laws prohibited other fats from being used in chocolate products. In particular, the laws of some European Union members required the use of only cocoa butter. Chocolate manufacturers and others in those nations campaigned vigorously to maintain (and indeed extend) such prohibitions against "substandard" chocolate products of other nations, especially the UK.