Chocolate News

Wine, Beer and Chocolate, Eating and Drinking These Foods Linked to Living Longer

Newsweek Consuming food and drink with anti-inflammatory properties could lower a person’s risk of dying, according to a study. Anti-inflammatory food and drink highlighted by researchers included vegetables, fruit, whole-grain bread, breakfast cereal, low-fat cheese, olive and canola oil, nuts, chocolate, tea and coffee.

Makers of Healthier Chocolate Look to Challenge the Industry

Food Dive

At Expo East, founders at organic chocolate companies said their better-for-you treats are beginning to take a bite out of the traditional industry.

93 Year Old Iowa Man Gives to His Community One Chocolate Bar at a Time

WQAD.com

LONG GROVE, Iowa — Bob Williams has spent the last 10 years connecting to strangers, one chocolate bar at a time. To date, Williams has given out almost 6,000 Hershey’s bars to people in his community. His reason is simple – to bring the people around him closer together.

STUDY SHOWS DARK CHOCOLATE COULD HELP VISION

CBS Sacramento

A new study is showing there’s a reason to indulge in some chocolate.

SEARCHING FOR CHOCOLATE’S ROOTS AND ENEMIES IN COLUMBIA’S WILDERNESS

Scientific American

Each cacao pod usually encases about 40 beans—the source of cocoa powder and chocolate. But these pods, on Gildardo Ramirez’s farm in Columbia, will never make chocolate. The healthy white, sweet pulp that normally encases the beans are diseased and infected. It’s just one of many threats that plague the region’s chocolate farms – and chocolate.