Cocoa bean fermentation is a complex and dynamic microbiological process that transforms harvested cocoa pods into precursors essential for flavour and quality in chocolate production. This process ...

On March 30, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Spero dismissed a pair of class action suits against Nestle USA and Hershey Co. alleging the two chocolate companies should have printed information ...

Producing chocolate, one of the world's most beloved sweets, is a multistep process beginning with freshly harvested cocoa beans. People have been experimenting with chocolate-making for millennia, ...

The Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) has welcomed the government’s renewed policy direction aimed at increasing the local processing of cocoa before export ...

Government has directed that a minimum of 50% of all cocoa beans should be processed locally beginning from the 2026-2027 ...

The Finance Minister announced that 50 per cent of cocoa beans produced in Ghana will be processed domestically from the 2026/2027 crop year, a move aimed at boosting industrialisation and job ...

JAKARTA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Indonesia's cocoa industry expects to process 360,000 tonnes of beans in both 2015 and 2016, down around 10 percent from last year due to a declining local crop and ...

The minister for finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has announced a new policy aimed at significantly increasing the local ...

By Benjamin Akoto, GNA Sunyani (Bono), Feb. 17, GNA-The Concerned Farmers Association of Ghana has lauded the government decision to process 50 percent of cocoa beans in the country. Nana Oboadie ...

Cabinet has approved a far-reaching directive requiring that a minimum of 50% of Ghana rsquo;s cocoa beans be processed ...

Learn about when to use Dutch-process cocoa, when to use natural or regular cocoa, and how to substitute one for the other.