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Best Answer: From a strict intrinsic pH stand point, chocolate is an acid. All food is acidic, some is just less acidic or closer to neutral (pH 7) than others.
I have been making chocolate for a couple years. Cacao naturally has three acids in it. Part of the processing, roasting and conching, is to try to drive out as much of the acid as possible, but that does not make it a base. Milk chocolate, which contains powdered milk, adds another acid.