The International Cocoa Organisation Expert Working Group on Stocks (EWGS) conducted their annual meeting to review global cocoa bean stocks on 27th January 2022. The ICCO conducts a survey each year on cocoa bean stocks held in warehouses and an assessment of global cocoa bean stock levels. The meetings, which began in 2000, aim to […]
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Mexican manuscript banned As a cardinal in the Pope’s court, Ferdinando de Medici discovered a 12-volume manuscript consisting of 2,400 pages with more than 2,000 illustrations, which had recently been sent to Rome from Madrid. The magisterial work had been commissioned by the Catholic Church to Bernardino de Sahagún, a Franciscan brother and three of
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The new Nigerian export rule has led to about 100,000 tonnes of cocoa beans trapped at ports as it is taking 40 days instead of 7 to get approvals to clear a container for shipping.
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Cocoa beans of Hainan origin have been exported to EU for the first time ever.
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390KG of Cocaine was discovered hidden amount sacks of cocoa beans in a container heading for Switzerland.
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Malaysian Sarawak’s cocoa bean production showed an upward trend in 2019.
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Minecraft now supports Cocoa Bean production, and in an update, it became sustainable too!
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New research conducted on the Criollo and Trinitario varieties of noble cocoa revealed that different conditions during fermentation can affect the flavour of the finished fermented beans. The majority of the world’s cocoa production comes from the Forastero varietal, with more research carried out on the Forastero varietal than the Criollo and Trinitario varietals. “Criollo
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A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois suggests that three of the phenolic compounds in cocoa bean shells have powerful effects on the fat and immune cells, potentially reversing the chronic inflammation and insulin resistance associated with obesity. Visiting scholar in food science Miguel Rebollo-Hernanz and Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, a professor
PHENOLS IN COCOA BEAN SHELLS MAY REVERSE OBESITY-RELATED PROBLEMS-STUDY FINDS Read More »
UK researchers have developed a new green technology to generate electricity from discarded cocoa pod husks, which they hope will benefit Ghanian farming communities with little or no access to grid power. The project, led by the University of Nottingham, aims to spawn an entirely new biofuel industry which would create new local jobs for
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