chocolate in the news
Pill Makes Flatulence Smell Like Chocolate
December 12, 2014
This unique odor cure originates from the creative mind of Christian Poincheval, a 65-year-old artist and inventor from the village of Gesvres in western France.
As stated by Mark Rylander in The Huffington Post’s story, “[Poincheval] has claimed to have solved one of humanity’s most pungent problems.”
Chocolate Factory to Open in D.C.
December 5, 2014
There’s buzz in the news about Washington D.C. getting its first chocolate factory next summer. We can only hope there will be a chocolate river moat surrounding the whole thing!
Founders of the company “Concept C”, Sarah and Colin Hartman, are the chocolatiers planning this endeavor. Sarah is a culinary school graduate, and her husband Colin is a Wharton MBA grad and former U.S. Marine.
Eat Chocolate, Build Memory
November 28, 2014
Doctors just announced, at the Scientific Sessions 2014 in Chicago, results of a study linking high consumption of trans fats with poorer memory on word recall tests.
Leader of the experiment, Beatrice Golomb, stated “trans fats were most strongly linked to worse memory in young and middle-aged men during their working and career-building years.”
Now, aside from education and depression, doctors only took two food variables into consideration during this experiment – trans fats, and chocolate.
Chocolate Just Made the Endangered Foods List
November 21, 2014
With the holidays just around the corner, chocolate goodies and candies span as far as the eye can see.
In the grocery store, we stroll past red and green colored chocolates in all our favorite varieties. We’re busily searching for recipes to bring to our neighborhood bake swap, or fantasizing about the goodies grandma has in store for us this year.
Can you imagine a holiday without chocolate? If you think that would simply be the end of the world, you might want to stock up on your favorites, because we’re in for a chocolate shortage.
Where’s Wonka?
November 14, 2014
Buzz at the Daily Mail, an online UK news portal, is that a real-life Willy Wonka has been discovered, and he is taking the world of chocolate by storm.
Currently in Australia launching his new line of chocolates, “Willie’s Cacao”, Willie Harcourt Cooze is a UK native who is seeking to bring our sugar-ridden palates back to earth with the taste of only the finest cacao.
Solbeso – Spirit Distilled From The Cacao Fruit
October 24, 2014
When we think about cacao, we almost always associate it with chocolate. The pod is the fruit of the cacao tree. The big seeds inside the pod are the cocoa beans. But the fruit is more than just the outer shell and the inner beans. There's also a pulp that surrounds the beans.
The pulp is thin and it's typically removed and thrown away to get access to the beans which are used to make the luscious chocolate we dream about.
Chocolate Toilet and Other Bathroom Fixtures
October 10, 2014
If you had the resources, would you be willing to shell out $22,559 on a toilet made of chocolate? I’m not one to judge, but I bet even the most devoted chocoholic wouldn’t come running to buy one.
The self-proclaimed “chocoholics” who are behind the U.K.-based online store Bathrooms.com are giving you a 980,000-calorie loo, which is part of a 100% Belgian Chocolate Bathroom Suite.
Chocolate Legos?
September 26, 2014
A recent study indicated that 89% of chocolate buyers purchase it as a reward or treat, and 87% consider it as a regular snack, whereas 83% of them take into consideration the size of chocolate candy packages to know the best bang for the buck, and 72% opt for chocolate to enhance their mood or to get an energy kick.
The giants in the chocolate industry know the significance of consumer concerns. No wonder miniature versions of chocolate bars came surfacing to help generate sales within the growing snacking sector.
Chocolate Craving Mysteries Debunked
September 19, 2014
Chocolate candy bars can naturally contain chemicals that simulate everything from coffee to marijuana, which can be a good excuse as to why we crave it. It will always be a mystery that we are unable to abstain from it, yes? No. This research shows we are simply greedy.
Growing Cacao on American Soil
September 12, 2014
Did you know that there is an increasing amount of high quality cacao being grown in the United States?
We know there is a massive amount of chocolate being produced in the US, but until recently, there were no cacao trees being grown on American soil, and all chocolate being made in the US was made from imported cocoa beans. That is slowly changing.