It all starts with the cacao bean. Yes, we spelled that right - cacao ... reportedly sold the recipe to Nestlé for $1. White chocolate isn’t actually chocolate, because it doesn’t contain ...

However, white chocolate is made from the cocoa butter component of the cocoa bean; the cocoa solids ... white chocolate plays a mellow background note instead.

That's what chocolate producers have traditionally done with the cocoa fruit - used the beans and disposed of the rest. But now food scientists in Switzerland have come up with a way to make ...

Other companies have different recipes. “Instead of cocoa beans, we use fava beans sourced from farms across the UK and Europe, and then we ferment them in a similar way that cocoa farmers ferme ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A frantic hunt by chocolate manufacturers for high-grade cocoa has left a backlog of old, poor-quality ...

Cocoa harvests are looking better for the new season, but it may not be enough to bring chocolate costs down much. After poor crops in West Africa fueled huge bean shortages and turmoil across the ...

Cocoa prices have underlying support from concern about the availability of cocoa beans for buyers. Reuters reported on June 12 that Ghana is considering delaying the delivery of up to 350,000 ...

The greater demand for cocoa beans is backed by concerns of traders regarding their shortage amid the low harvest in Ghana and Ivory Coast PRETORIA, February 28. /TASS/. Global cocoa bean prices ...

Ghana’s cocoa industry regulator is negotiating to ... and if Ghana’s prices don’t keep up, its beans risk being smuggled over the border, the people said, asking not to be identified ...

is not financially stable enough to purchase cocoa beans from farmers. He strongly refuted the assertions, standing categorically that it was a wrong impression. Addressing a press conference ...

One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans — the fermented seed of the cacao tree. Cocoa-free chocolate is already available but scientists around the world ...