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, ...

Poor post-harvesting practices is one of the factors limiting quality cocoa production among farmers. How the cocoa beans are handled after they are removed from the pods has the biggest impact on ...

Chocolate is one of the world’s most treasured foods, but behind its endearing taste lies a surprisingly complicated science. A new study from the University of Nottingham, published in Nature ...

Scientists have decoded the microbial and environmental factors behind cacao fermentation, the critical process that defines chocolate’s taste. By recreating the fermentation with controlled microbial ...

Researchers have identified key factors that influence the flavor of chocolate during the cocoa bean fermentation process, a discovery that could offer chocolate producers a powerful tool to craft ...

Chocolate is unquestionably one of the world’s most beloved sweet treats. In fact, it may well take the number one spot - it certainly does with this writer. It’s a favourite in drinks, snacks, cakes, ...

A new study claims to have taken this unpredictability out of the equation, making for consistently fine-flavoured chocolate.The study was carried out by 13 researchers — a majority from the ...

Like wine and cheese, chocolate has terroir, a sense of the place it was grown. Each bonbon or bar may carry unique flavors shaped by the soil, rainfall and temperature of the farm. But much of that ...

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. MUNICH — A few years ago, food ...