What's really in the middle of a Kit Kat? The answer is blowing our minds (2024)
Kit Kat lovers, prepare to have your minds blown: that creamy filling between the crispy wafers of the classic chocolate bar isn't just plain chocolate.
There's definitely some chocolate in there, but a BBC documentary revealed that the inside layers of the bar are actually made of ... wait for it .. .ground-up Kit Kats!
This is so meta.
Thinking about that is sure to unleash some chicken-and-egg confusion: What, then, were the creamy layers of the original Kit Kat bar made from?
The documentary originally aired during a 2015 episode of BBC Two's "Inside the Factory," but the ground-up Kit Kat business came to light recently during a re-run of the episode, when a fan tweeted, "Wait, the filling is ground-up Kit Kat?"
Along the production line, a worker in the video explains that a pile of broken-up chocolate bars will next be going into "re-work, where they're used for fillings for the wafer."
It's well known that British chocolates don't always taste like their U.S. counterparts, and it's important to note that the BBC Two documentary was filmed in the York factory in the U.K., which is run by Nestlé, while Hershey produces Kit Kats in the United States.
And chocolate makers are as famously tight-lipped as Willy Wonka himself.
"While we make and sell Kit Kat bars in the U.S. under a global license from Nestlé, the manufacturing process for Kit Kat is proprietary under this license," a Hershey spokesperson told TODAY Food. The spokesperson then rerouted us back to Nestlé.
"To clarify, the 'chocolayer' — the filling between the wafer of a Kit Kat — is made from cocoa liquor, sugar and a small amount of re-worked Kit Kat," a Nestlé U.K. spokesperson confirmed, adding, "Please note, re-worked Kit Kat is product which cannot be sold."
While a small number of broken Kit Kats are destined to be ground-up Kit Kat filling, the likelihood that all Kit Kat layers are made entirely from other Kit Kats did seem unlikely. After all, approximately 192 million Kit Kat bars are sold in the United States alone every year, according to the Symphony IRI Group.
While the label doesn't break down which ingredients are used for the chocolate and which are for the wafers, the wheat flour and yeast are the critical components here, and that some of the broken Kit Kats may be layered in between with the wafers, along with the melted chocolate and sugar.
Kit Kat fillings are made from damaged Kit Kats, which were made from previous damaged Kit Kats. Broken and battered bars 'go into re-work, where they're used for the fillings for the wafer', a factory worker told Gregg Wallace. To make this really clear: the filling is just ground up Kit Kat.
“To clarify, the 'chocolayer' — the filling between the wafer of a Kit Kat — is made from cocoa liquor, sugar and a small amount of re-worked Kit Kat,” a Nestlé U.K. spokesperson confirmed, adding, “Please note, re-worked Kit Kat is product which cannot be sold.”
The KIT KAT® Bar got its start across the pond in 1935. Originally known by Londoners as “Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp,” the candy was renamed in 1937 to “Kit Kat® Chocolate Crisp.” While KIT KAT® Bars are a global confection, The Hershey Company has produced the candy in the U.S. since 1970.
The first use of the tagline 'Have a Break.Have a Kit Kat', written by the agency's Donald Gilles, can be traced to May 1957. A year later it was used on the first television spots for the brand and ever since has been a staple of campaigns for the chocolate bar.
As it turns out, a BBC 2 show called Inside the Factory that went behind the scenes at the Nestlé plant in York, England, revealed a little-known fact about the beloved candy bars – the crispy wafers are stuffed with crushed-up Kit Kats. In other words, Kit Kats are filled with other Kit Kats.
Proper Consumption of the Kitkat (or PCK) verse 66:66 tells us that thou shalt not consume the kitkat without breaking the wafers. Just kidding, nobody cares if you break the wafers or not. You can eat KitKats any way you like.
In the 1980s, Nestlé, a Swiss multinational food and beverage company, acquired Rowntree's, the original producer of KitKat. Since then, Nestlé has taken over manufacturing and distribution of this popular snack, leading to its widespread global availability.
However, Nestle also says that the “name first appeared on a boxed assortment of chocolates that Rowntree's made during the 1920s.” That name officially came from an 18th century Whig literary club titled after a man named Christopher Catling—or Kit Cat.
Introduced in August 29 in 1935 by Rowntree's as a confectionery business based in York, United Kingdom, Kit Kat, now owned by Nestlé, is one of the world's leading chocolate brands.
“It's shining a light on a simple, universal human truth that it doesn't matter how much things change, we're always better when we take a break." “As a brand that has famously stood for breaks for over 85 years, we believe that everyone deserves a break," said a Nestle spokesperson.
"To clarify, the 'chocolayer' — the filling between the wafer of a Kit Kat — is made from cocoa liquor, sugar and a small amount of re-worked Kit Kat," a Nestlé U.K. spokesperson confirmed, adding, "Please note, re-worked Kit Kat is product which cannot be sold."
In the US, Kit Kat is sold by Hershey. In the rest of the world, Nestlé's in charge. That means different flavors across the globe, and different recipes — even two versions of a dark chocolate Kit Kat, Hershey's and Nestlé's, don't taste the same.
Kit Kat is to release a 'Cough Drop' bar for the Japanese market. The new white chocolate Kit Kat is described as 'medicinal' in taste with 2.1% of its ingredients comprised of throat lozenge powder. The Cough Drop is a limited edition run, described by its manufacturer as a 'fresh and invigorating flavour'.
We've got good news for you: It's absolutely still edible, and there's no need to throw out that perfectly OK chocolate bar. White flecks and spots on your chocolate bar are signs of either a “fat bloom” or a “sugar bloom,” and it's totally natural.
Yep, that's right, when you take a big bite of that crisp, wafer-layered goodness, you're actually consuming broken KitKats, that were once KitKats, filled with broken KitKats, that were also once KitKats.
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