In the UK, Cocoa Runners a speciality chocolate gift and subscription company, are offering to donate any profits they make to foodbanks when you buy chocolate for the British NHS under the catchy title “Chocs for Docs”.
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People are including more plant-based options in their diet, Nestlé is releasing plant-based versions of some of its most-loved international brands. That now includes the Milo, world’s leading cocoa malt beverage.
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Peet’s Coffee®, The Original Craft Coffee®, announced the launch of its annual, limited-edition Anniversary coffee, which celebrates the craft roaster’s founding by giving back to the origin. Anniversary 2020—a 100% women grown coffee—will once again support The Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship in Huila, Colombia. Honoring their Coffee Past by Mentoring the Future: Women’s Center for
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Awareness of speciality chocolate is growing among the mainstream consumers, who are willing to pay a premium for a superior and fairly produced product. ‘Bean to Bar’ is no longer considered a buzz word, but something desirable and not as difficult to attain as before.
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The release of KIT KAT ® Birthday Cake brand-new flavor marks the very first time that a KIT KAT ® Bar includes sprinkles.
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A common question people ask is “what’s the difference in between cacao powder and also cocoa powder?”
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With the One Bar project, a farmer could expect to get paid $3,400 a metric ton for the same crop without taking into account extra income made from the consumers who donate the token back to the farmer.
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Nestlé is spending 45 million Swiss francs (£35.17 million) a year on efforts to source cocoa sustainably, the food company said, also citing progress in reducing child labour in its West African supply chain. The company, which has spent about 220 million francs over the past ten years on efforts to tackle child labour and
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Cargill is investing more than $113 million to expand two West African cocoa processing sites. The company announced a $100 million investment aimed at doubling its production capacity in Yopougon, Cote d’Ivoire. An additional $13 million investment in Tema, Ghana, will increase production capacity by 20%. “We aim to shift a greater share of our
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Scientists believe that cocoa and food containing it could provide a potentially valuable source of vitamin D. A research group at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Max Rubner-Institut has identified what it described as “a new, previously unknown source of vitamin D2: cocoa and foods containing cocoa have significant amounts of this important nutrient.” According
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