Mystery KitKat ingredient finally revealed

Insiders have finally revealled the answer to an age-old question: what’s that tasty filling inside KitKats?

Remarkably, “chocolayer” isn’t actually a word, as the red wrapper would have you believe.

BBC’s Inside the Factory program revealed that the secret ingredient in between the crispy wafer layers is in fact made of rejected KitKats that didn’t quite make the cut.

In what can only be described as KitKat inception, the mystery behind KitKat's secret ingredient has now been revealed. Source: Getty Images
In what can only be described as KitKat inception, the mystery behind KitKat's secret ingredient has now been revealed. Source: Getty Images

Technicians (yes KitKat technicians) remove any sub par chocolate bars where they are smashed up and ground into a fine paste which goes on to form that snapping chocolate generations have grown up adoring.

After Toblerone controversially increased the gap in between their delicious triangles of chocolatey goodness and a decision to downsize most European chocolate bars, we really needed some good chocolate news.

And while one mystery has been solved, another has now been posed, how on earth did they make the first KitKat?