{"id":1475,"date":"2018-11-30T08:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2020-04-01T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T07:28:05","slug":"cocoa-beans-with-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/cocoa-beans-with-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"COCOA BEANS WITH A TWIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Arun Viswanathan, who won a bronze medal at the International Chocolate Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A conversation with Arun Viswanathan is always interesting, as it is always about chocolates. He recently created a buzz in the food industry by winning a bronze medal at the International Chocolate Awards<\/a> in the Milk Chocolate with Infusion category, with mango lassi milk chocolate (from his range Chitra\u2019m).<\/p>\n

The International Chocolate Awards<\/a> is an independent competition, held to recognise excellence in fine chocolate-making and its products. \u201cThe award concentrates on craft chocolates and the jury consisted of cocoa and chocolate-tasting experts from around the world,\u201d said Arun, who will receive a certificate and a sticker to use on his chocolate wrapper.<\/p>\n

Arun claims that he sources his cocoa<\/a> beans from a farmer in Kerala and the flavouring agents from Coimbatore market. \u201cThe flavours of the beans vary from farm to farm. I was introduced to this farmer by a friend and his produce matched the standards I wanted. The quality of the beans and its fermentation process also play a crucial role in bringing out the flavour.\u201d He sources the beans once a month, which are then roasted, cracked, winnowed and ground at a particular temperature for a specific period before being tempered and poured into moulds. \u201cThe flavours are added while grinding. Tempering gives the chocolate a shine and snap, both of which are properties of a good chocolate.\u201d<\/p>\n

His chocolates have a shelf life of six months and do not \u201chave artificial sweeteners, colours, stabilisers, flavours or vegetable fat\u201d. Arun says his chocolates have a slight bitter taste as he does not add vanilla essence. \u201cThey are good for health,\u201d he claims. He has many plans for the future, such as \u201cintroducing new flavours. I cannot reveal much now; all I can say is they will involve flowers and tea.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also plans to introduce a new range of bottled frozen hot chocolate and a chocolate breakfast spread in December. He is also set to open a chocolate manufacturing unit with walk-in tours for the public in Coimbatore. \u201cWinning this award has increased my confidence. Expectations have also increased. I will participate in more international chocolate expos.\u201d His products will soon be available online and he is also looking to partner with caf\u00e9s to sell his chocolates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet Arun Viswanathan, who won a bronze medal at the International Chocolate Awards. A conversation with Arun Viswanathan is always interesting, as it is always about chocolates. He recently created a buzz in the food industry by winning a bronze medal at the International Chocolate Awards in the Milk Chocolate with Infusion category, with mango […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}