Nestlé said it developed a process to maximize cocoa output as climate challenges reduce yields for farmers. The food giant said its novel technique utilizes up to 30% more of the cocoa fruit to ...

All cocoa powders come from cocoa beans, but the difference lies in how they’re processed. Cocoa powder can range from light tan to jet black with varying pH levels that affect how it interacts with ...

Natural cocoa powder is lighter in color, has a higher acidity of about 5 pH, and because of that acidity, has a sharper chocolate flavor. Dutch-process powder is natural cocoa powder that has been ...

In Ivory Coast on the African continent, millions of farm workers harvest tons of cocoa pods each year. Only the seeds are needed, being directed into the global supply chain, while the shells get ...

Barry Callebaut plans to triple its chocolate production capacity in Côte d’Ivoire to serve local and regional markets. New projects and investor interest support the country's goal of processing 50% ...

Belarusian state concern of food industry Belgospischeprom is implementing major investment projects to expand and modernize ...

Olam Food Ingredients (Ofi) has installed two circular biomass boilers at its cocoa processing factories in the Netherlands and Germany. By using cocoa shells – a by-product of the cocoa production ...

The Federal Government has disclosed that Nigeria loses an estimated $2 billion annually in potential revenue because of ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology in Munich have shown that overfermentation of cocoa beans ...

A farmer with a seedling produced from the soilless medium The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is going green in its production of cocoa seedlings. Through its Seed Production Division Read More... The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cocoa powder is an essential baking ingredient. Our brownies, cakes and cookies would be nothing without it. The thing is, though, ...