Category: Craft Food
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The New Pink Chocolate Called Ruby Chocolate
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 September 5, 2017. The Swiss company unveiled the fourth type of “naturally colored chocolate”, Ruby, more than 80 years after inventing…
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Cacao vs Cocoa
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 are used interchangeably. However, there is a bit of a difference, which we break down for you here below. The…
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How To Decipher Cacao Percentages
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 package letting you know exactly how much cacao you can expect in your chocolate bar. But what does it really…
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Child Labor in Cacao Production
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, thousands of family farms produce over 60% of the cacao used in the global chocolate industry and are the primary…
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What is Biodynamic Agriculture?
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 most consumers are familiar. However, another certification has started appearing on a wide-range of products. That label is Biodynamic and…