Someone help me pleeeeaassee ;)

[loser4life]

I have searched the web over and went to the healthfood store around here and can't fine White carob chips anywhere! Can anyone help me with this please? If anyone knows where I can get them I would love to know where! Thx!
I have been making dog buscuits and I need them!

[Desertthorn]

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The only place I ever see then, and I don't think I have ever seen white is at health food stores. I would call around and ask them. They might know if they don't have them. Next time I go to our food co-op I'll look.

[loser4life]

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yeah, the health food store had regular but not white, i am beginning to think I found a bum recipe! lol
thanks for looking!

[cmcole]

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As white "chocolate" isn't really chocolate, it shouldn't be an issue for dogs.
You might try a bulk place that sells "melting wafers" if that's how you are planning to use them (dipping the doggie cookies into the melted "chocolate")

[sadie147]

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I agree with cm cole on the white chocolate see below. Also would regular carob chips not be ok as they are not chocolate?

Here is good info on dogs and chocolate from http://www.dogownersdigest.com/news/...oisoning.shtml

Knowing which chocolate is the most toxic is important, but leaves one wondering how much must be eaten to poison a dog. The list in this box should be helpful. Maybe you can clip it and post it on your refrigerator?

• White chocolate: 200 ounces per pound of body weight. It takes 250 pounds of white chocolate to cause signs of poisoning in a 20-pound dog, 125 pounds for a 10-pound dog.
• Milk chocolate: 1 ounce per pound of body weight. Approximately one pound of milk chocolate is poisonous to a 20-pound dog; one-half pound for a 10-pound dog. The average chocolate bar contains 2 to 3 ounces of milk chocolate. It would take 2-3 candy bars to poison a 10 pound dog. Semi-sweet chocolate has a similar toxic level.
• Sweet cocoa: 0.3 ounces per pound of body weight. One-third of a pound of sweet cocoa is toxic to a 20-pound dog; 1/6 pound for a 10-pound dog.
• Baking chocolate: 0.1 ounce per pound body weight. Two one-ounce squares of bakers' chocolate is toxic to a 20-pound dog; one ounce for a 10-pound dog.

My last dog Sadie, ate an entire box of Nutchos (chcolate nut clusters, mostly chocolate) about 3 lbs- they were givin to me as a gift and wrapped under the tree, the dog took the liberty of opening them for me he had the runs after, who wouldn't after eating all that LOL? ..but he was fine.

[loser4life]

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Thanks for the great info guys- i think i am going to try to order some yogurt powder online, I am making doggie biscuits and selling them, so I don't want to have to advertise chocolate as an ingredient, carob is good(but I would like to be able to color it), but From working at the vets and knowing how many people freak when their dog eats chocolate, I just don't think its a good idea even though I know its ok... and the baking chocolate is the only real concern....so here goes the experiments!!! lol hmmm... off to find this online

[cmcole]

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My dog ate my daughter's entire chocolate figure (Easter type). Obviously, not too much chocolate there - he didn't even have any problems, that we could detect.

I'm not even sure there is any chocolate in those melting wafers - but you could read the package just to be sure.

White chocolate

White chocolate is not really chocolate, since it is not made from cocoa beans. However, it is made from cocoa butter to which milk, sugar, and vanilla extract have been added, and it is similar to chocolate in texture. White chocolate is very sweet.

Nutrition Highlights

Chocolate, 1 bar (sweet, candy) (1.45 oz.) (41g)
Calories: 207
Protein: 1.6g
Carbohydrate: 24.4g
Total Fat: 14g
Fiber: 2.2g
*Good source of: Magnesium (46mg)

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/candies/chocolate.htm

Ingredients, storage, hand dipping, enrobing, and molding for chocolates
Merckens® COMPOUND COATING Chocolate - A Confectionery coating, also known as Rainbow Wafer, Confectionery Coating or Summer Coating. For use in candy molds by the novice and/or professional candy maker. Compound Coating should not be confused with 'Real' chocolate. Our confectionery compound coating has a rich chocolate velvety flavor, and may contain small amounts of cocoa butter or chocolate liquor, but they primarily contain other vegetable fats and cocoa for easier handling and faster set up. The colored confectionery coatings have a pleasant vanilla flavor and that same velvety melt-in-your mouth feel. Confectionery coating does not contain wax, which could be a health risk for some people. We no longer advise you to add wax to chocolate for dipping or molding chocolates. Use Merckens®instead and stop eating wax! Confectionery coating is not as sensitive to the high humidity and temperatures of summer.
Due to the potential for melting during warmer months, shipments will be shipped at buyer's risk. We recommend anticipating your needs and ordering sufficient quantities before warm weather. Most chocolate can be melted again without trouble.

[sadie147]

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There is a dog bakery is near my house -- my dog likes their 'mailman finger cookies' , and they sell all different colours of dipped biscuits. I checked out their site and they list them dipped either in carb,or 'vanilla'. hmmm no idea what that vanilla dip would be .

They have good info about carob, they say 'it resembles cocoa', so i'm thinking it doesn't come in white?

https://www.threedog.com/pawticulars/ingred_carob.shtml

Care to give carob to your canine? You're barking up the right tree especially since carob comes from the fruit of an evergreen tree native to the Mediterranean region. The tree's large, long bean-like pods are picked, dried then ground into a fine powder that looks very similar to cocoa. Luckily, you don't have to worry about it making your canine friend sick as a dog. Because carob contains none of the dangerous ingredients found in the cocoa bean, like allergy-producing antibodies or the caffeine stimulant theobromine, which can be fatal to some dogs. (whimper)
So the next time bowser is begging for a bite, treat him to some carob. It's jaw-slobberin' tasty - and healthy. And, it contains as much vitamin B1 as asparagus or strawberries, the same amount of niacin as lima beans, lentils or peas, and more vitamin A than eggplant, asparagus and beets. It's also high in vitamin B2, calcium, magnesium and iron.

[loser4life]

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yeah- I agree, I don't think it comes in white either... The recipes I found called for white carob, but I am pretty sure it doesn't even come in white... I think they just don't want to advertise using chocolate or something...
Thanks for all your help guys!!!