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The mystery of the rounder, sweeter chocolate bar.
People are known to associate sweetness with roundness and angularity with bitterness and, hence, making a traditionally rectangular food rounder may be expected to alter the perceived taste by priming notions of sweetness in the mind of the consumer. (2013)
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Here's What You Need to Know About That Viral Story on Chocolate 'Going Extinct'
If you've caught much news recently, you'll probably have seen headlines about the looming extinction crisis set to wipe out chocolate in 40 years. It's a scary possibility, but it's also not quite as simple as that.
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Don't panic, but the world could run out of chocolate by 2050
Chocolate could soon be a thing of the past, after scientists warned that the cacao plant, from which chocolate is made, could be extinct within 32 years. Over half of the world's chocolate comes from just two countries in West Africa - Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana - where the temperature, rain, and humidity provide the perfect conditions for cacao to thrive.
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Chocolate is on track to go extinct in 40 years
Cacao plants could disappear by 2050, so companies like Mars are teaming up with scientists to save them.
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Why can't dogs eat chocolate?
Chocolate poisoning in dogs remains a problem, particularly at Christmas.
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Treasured 100 year old box of Christmas chocolates to go on sale
By Hannah McFadyen Over 100 years ago little Eileen Margaret Elmes received a very special Christmas present – a box of Little Red Riding Hood themed chocolates. But the young chocolate-lover thought they were so lovely that she simply couldn’t bring herself to eat them.
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Dark chocolate is now a health food. Here’s how that happened.
The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of scientific studies to show cocoa is good for you.
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Turkey's Pladis looks at Nestle's U.S. candy as part of expansion
LONDON (Reuters) - Pladis, the Turkish company that owns Godiva chocolate and McVitie's biscuits, is considering making an offer for Nestle's U.S. confectionery assets, which could be valued at around $2 billion, as part of its international expansion plans.
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The Unlikely Medical History of Chocolate Syrup
How the sundae staple went from treatment to just treat
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20 Tons Of Nutella Stolen From Truck In Germany
According to reports, over 20 tons of Nutella and chocolate eggs were stolen from a refrigerated trailer in the town of Neustadt.
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Snortable chocolate is like Four Loko for your nose
When you hear about a substance people snort, something illegal or vaguely medicinal comes to mind. However, there’s now another powdery, recreational substance you ingested nasally, and it’s coming your way soon: chocolate.
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Cocoa and chocolate are not just treats -- they are good for your cognition:
Researchers have examined the available literature for the effects of acute and chronic administration of cocoa flavanols on different cognitive domains. It turns out that cognitive performance was improved by a daily intake of cocoa flavanols.
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Chocolate in History: Food, Medicine, Medi-Food
I don't care what that other snap said.
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Chocolate is not a super food
Listen: we all want to believe that we make good choices. It doesn't matter if I douse my lettuce in fatty salad dressing, it's still good for me. Yes, there is an awful lot of sugary granola in my yogurt but hey, it's Greek yogurt. And maybe I do eat a lot of chocolate, but so what? It's good for my heart!
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10 Interesting Facts About Chocolate - MyHealthyDessert
Here are 10 interesting facts about chocolate and cocoa powder.
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An Easter reflection on chocolate and medicine
Chocolate was primarily used as medicine until the 19th century, when it began to be replaced by more specific treatments. Xoxalatl was a product of meso and southern America, the Mayans and other cultures of the region regarded it as sacred, and it was prized for its medicinal and aphrodisiacal qualities. Chocolate was reserved for men of high rank such as priests, and, somewhat uncomfortably, sacrificial victims. Chocolate was used for a multitude of conditions, and its use as a medicine evolved over the centuries. Chocolate could be used by itself, in mixtures with other herbs, or as a simple carrier to mask the taste of other medicines.
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Our Greatest Geological Discovery Is This Chocolate Boulder With Edible Candy Geodes Inside
If you thought Cadbury Creme Eggs were humanity’s greatest confectionery creation, Alex O’Brien Yeatts, a baking and pastry student at the Culinary Institute of America, has come up with a dessert that looks straight out of a geology textbook—not a cookbook.
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Chocolate dresses, hats and bags at Belgian Chocolate Fair
Models strutted down the runway in dresses made entirely of chocolate in a show that was part of the Belgium Chocolate Fair.
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Nestlé says it can slash sugar in chocolate without changing taste
Nestlé says it has found a way of slashing the amount of sugar in some of its chocolate bars by 40%, without compromising the taste. The Swiss food company, whose products include Kit Kats, Aeros and Yorkies, said it has achieved the reduction by discovering a way “to structure sugar differently”. The new process is said to make sugar dissolve faster so that even when less is used, the tongue perceives an identical level of sweetness.
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Is Cadbury's move the end for Fairtrade? - BBC News
With Cadbury set to drop its Fairtrade certification, has the ethical-trade mark had its day?
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