Chocolate News
Bye-bye, guilt: Carbs, booze, chocolate and sex are health boosters
NEW YORK POST Cancel your crack-of-dawn CrossFit class. Your new healthy lifestyle is all about guilty pleasures: booze, bread, chocolate, and lying bed. That’s the relieving, research-backed wisdom found in Erik and Harry Ofgang’s new book, “The Good Vices: From Beer to Sex, the Surprising Truth About What’s Actually Good for You” (TarcherPerigee).Behind the scenes at Haigh’s chocolate factory
From bean to basket, take a tour, through pictures, of the factory that produces the much-loved chocolate, and see how their chocolate is made from bean to basket. Check it out, here, at GourmetTraveller.com.
What Chocolate Shortage? Cocoa Prices Steady as Record Output Projected
Supply concerns made cocoa the best-performing commodity of 2018. Last year, prices of cocoa futures soared by 28% on repeated warnings by analysts that chocolate would be in limited supply in 2020 because of a scarcity of cocoa beans. But cocoa prices are relatively unchanged since the start of 2019.
Does chocolate cause acid reflux?
It is very common to experience occasional acid reflux. Most people find that certain foods trigger symptoms more than others. One possible culprit is chocolate.
An Illinois man is sentenced to prison for ordering 42 pounds of marijuana-infused chocolate
A man from suburban Chicago was sentenced to four years in prison after he ordered 42 pounds of marijuana-infused chocolate from California with the intention of selling it, the Kane County state’s attorney’s office said in a statement.