We've all heard of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. But pink chocolate? Well now that's a thing, too. Barry Callebaut, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cocoa products, announced its latest invention on
Everybody has heard of cocoa, but is it the same as cacao? Isn't it the same thing? Well, kind of. In the industry when referring to the raw materials that will become chocolate, the terms
Today's chocolate has certainly evolved. Clever packaging aside, many consumers choose their chocolate of choice mainly based on cacao percentages. The percentage is often easily discerned through the bold statement on the front of the
While cacao is grown worldwide (within twenty degrees of the equator) the majority of the world’s cacao comes from just two west African nations: Ghana and Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire). In these two countries,
As quality and production methods become more of a concern to the general consumer, there has a been an increase in third party labeling. The most common labels are organic and non-GMO, both of which
