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About Bitter Chocolate

Bitter chocolate is defined as containing more than 35% chocolate liquor. Despite its name chocolate liquor contains no alcohol. It is made up of the finely...

Cocoa Solids: What They Are and Why They Matter

Chocolate today is recognised as a contributor to health and well-being, as long as you choose the ‘healthy’ chocolate options. Cocoa solids are the best...

Drinking Chocolate: History and Recipes

Picture yourself curled up in front of a roaring fire, after a long stressful day at work, or traipsing around the shops, or maybe a bracing walk over the hi...

Famous Chocolate Festivals

Chocolate festivals are as various and specific as the countries whose chocolate they celebrate, but they have one thing in common – lots of lovely chocola...

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Quiz: What is Your Chocolate Personality?

We know that our preferences, tastes, habits and behaviours can tell a psychologist a lot about our hidden motivations and beliefs, but can anything be learn...

Quiz: Are You A Chocolate Addict?

A recent study in the European Journal of Neuroscience suggests that there may be some similarities between the brains of drug addicts and the brains of thos...

Healthy Chocolate Treats

So we now know that dark chocolate is good for us because it offers some antioxidants, health-boosting catechins and mood-changing compounds that trigger the...

Chocolate And Fresh Fruit Dishes

Chocolate and fruit are natural combinations that make tasty recipes. Along with the pleasure of combining the intense flavours of fresh fruit with the natur...

Holidays For Chocolate Lovers

If you love chocolate, going on a holiday themed around your favourite treat will be a tempting experience. But remember that what really appeals to you may...

Planning a Chocolate-themed Garden

A chocolate-themed garden is easy to design, although planning for a winter range of colour and fragrance is quite challenging, given the UK’s rugged clima...

Chocolate As A Cosmetic

There's plenty of evidence to indicate that chocolate is a mood booster and powerhouse of mood-changing chemicals, but surely there’s no reason to believe...

The World's Most Expensive Chocolates

There are some chocolates who give ‘expensive’ a whole new meaning. Some don’t travel – like vintage wines you have go where they are produced to obt...

Ghana: The Home of Chocolate

On 13 September 2010 the world’s biggest chocolate was constructed in Armenia, but the cocoa from which it was crafted came from Ghana. The chocolate weigh...

Chocolate Myths Explored

There are many myths about chocolate, but which are true and which are false? Modern research has solved some myths and confirmed others. Chocolate Causes Ac...

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