Chocolate News

Ferrero Opens Its First Chocolate Factory In North America

ESMMAAGAZINE.COM Nutella maker Ferrero Group has opened its first chocolate processing facility in North America. The 70,000-square-foot facility is located at Ferrero’s manufacturing campus in Bloomington, Illinois, which produces chocolates for several brands including Kinder, Ferrero Rocher, Butterfinger, and CRUNCH, the company added.

Smithsonian Museum displays Doubletree by Hilton’s baked-in-space chocolate chip cookie

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Cookie baked in space is preserved and can be seen by Smithsonian visitors. DoubleTree by Hilton’s signature chocolate chip cookie became the first-ever food baked in space aboard the International Space Station in 2019.

Happy National Chocolate Chip Day! May 15, 2024

 

155-year-old chocolate company braces for dramatic rise in cocoa prices

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Guittard Chocolate Company CEO Gary Guittard explains why climate change and disease have made sourcing cocoa more challenging. (check out video discussion, HERE)

Keeping Chocolate Sweet While Cutting Sugar

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Penn State food scientist Gregory Ziegler experiments with substituting rice flour and/or oat flour to reduce the sugar content of chocolate. Ziegler says this indicates that there’s probably more sugar than needed in commercial chocolates and also that oat flour is a feasible sugar replacement. “You can take a product that’s already got some good health benefits; it’s got this neutral fat, you can get rid of some of the sugar, maintain some sweetness, but then add this fiber component through the starches,” he explains.