Chocolate is a key ingredient in many foods such as milk shakes, candy bar, cookie and cereal. It is ranked as one of the most favorite flavors in North America and Europe (Swift, 1998). Despite its ...

Americans consume about 5 kg (11 lb) of chocolate each year. While widely enjoyed as a treat, chocolate, especially in less processed forms, contains compounds that may support cardiovascular, ...

Chocolate is a confection made from cacao beans, which are harvested, fermented, dried, roasted, and ground into cocoa mass, being the main component of chocolate. After further processing, this mass ...

HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — The Hershey Company just unveiled its new state-of-the-art Reese Chocolate Processing facility; here’s your chance to take a look inside! Earlier this week, The Hershey Company ...

HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — The Hershey Company confirmed earlier this morning that they will be unveiling its new state-of-the-art Reese Chocolate Processing facility later this week. According to The ...

Every piece of chocolate—whether it’s a humble Hershey’s bar or an upmarket Scharffen Berger bar—starts out as a tiny cacao bean. Some chocolatiers, like Francois Kwaku-Dongo—who grew up on a ...

Editor's note: This story has been changed to clarify that, while Daintree Estates was the first Australian company to commercially produce chocolate from locally grown cocoa four years ago, it is no ...

Chocolate is to Valentine's Day as turkeys are to Thanksgiving: most people find it inconceivable to celebrate without them. This very popularity has doomed them to becoming commodities—with all the ...