Conching and its impact on chocolate quality, rheology, flavour, flow, safety and nutrition.
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What is the essence of fine chocolate? What makes fine chocolate fine? What are the standards for fine chocolate?
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Theobroma Cacao tree facts and stats
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Is cocoa and cocaine related in any way?
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Coffee and cacao or chocolate are not related plants.
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Does chocolate contain caffeine, and how much caffeine does chocolate contain?
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Does chocolate contain a lot of caffeine? Is it safe for children to eat chocolate due to the caffeine content? Will I stay up late at night if I eat chocolate before bed?
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The Dynamics of volatile aromas and non-volatile compounds in cocoa during fermentation and drying
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General myths about chocolate cacao versus cocoa, bitter dark chocolate, sweet milk chocolate, white chocolate, ruby chocolate, chocolate is unhealthy, chocolate is dessert, chocolate terroir,
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Troubleshooting tips with making your own homemade bean to bar craft chocolate.
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Developing a low fat chocolate using water-in-cocoa butter emulsion.
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Effect of sugar, cocoa particles, and lecithin on cocoa butter crystallization in seeded and non-seeded chocolate.
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What main factors influence the flavour of fine cacao and chocolate? You may be surprised by some of the answers. Yes, roasting is one, but there are a couple underestimated factors as well. Is terroir a good reason why cacao and bean to bar chocolate tastes so different?
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A look at how fair trade and similar niche market sectors grew, as well as how they developed. This paper looks mostly into fair trade coffee, but can be applied to fair trade cacao and fair trade chocolate as well.
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History of how the chocolate Easter chocolate egg came to be.
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What are the main types of chocolate? How do we categorize chocolate types?
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