Chocolate News

The dream job: Making bars of chocolate

SWIOW In Belgium, chocolate is a big industry and an art. Chocoholic Brussels chocolate-store manager Patricia Lafargue makes bars by hand. Watch her (click here)!

Happy World Chocolate Day! July 7, 2019

 

Cookies in Space: DoubleTree Chocolate Chip Cookie to be First Food Baked in Space, Sending Hilton Hospitality into Orbit

BUSINESSWIRE

DoubleTree by Hilton is partnering with Zero G Kitchen and NanoRacks to bring its signature warm welcome to the International Space Station in a historic scientific experiment. Later this year, DoubleTree will make aerospace history when a batch of DoubleTree Cookie dough is launched along with the prototype oven in a rocket bound for the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a landmark microgravity experiment.

How to keep eating chocolate bars and not increase body fat after dieting

MIRROR

If you’ve reached your goal weight and want to avoid piling back on the pounds, follow these tips…(click here).

What Does Dark Chocolate Actually Smell Like?

CHROMATOGRAPHY TODAY

A recent paper published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has described work carried out to analyze the overall aroma in dark chocolate – and gas chromatography was the main technique used. Previous work has been carried out on odorants in milk chocolate and cocoa mass and has identified 44 key odorants in milk chocolate, 37 in cocoa mass and 24 in cocoa powder. In dark chocolate, German scientists found almost 70 different aroma producing chemicals. Of these, almost 30 were present at levels high enough for us to smell.