Chocolate is a food product made from the fruit of a cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). Raw, unprocessed chocolate tastes bitter and dry, but chocolate that’s been fermented, dried, and roasted, and had a ...

Mars is to invest €40m ($43.3m) in a chocolate factory in Germany, in part to support production of its Twix brand. The four-year project at the site in Viersen in western Germany will see Mars ...

CHENGDU, SICHUAN, CHINA, January 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — In the evolving landscape of global chocolate manufacturing, advancements in chocolate moulding ...

Chocolate lovers, beware. Each year 20 percent of the cacao beans that are used to make chocolate are lost to plant diseases, but even greater losses would occur if important diseases spread.

Swiss chocolate giant Barry Callebaut on Thursday announced it has suspended production at its plant in Wieze, Belgium—the world’s largest chocolate factory—after a salmonella outbreak was detected, ...

PITTSBURGH — Barchemy, a manufacturer of custom-formulated chocolate and confectionery ingredients for the nutritional bar, bakery, confectionery and ice cream industries, has launched an ...

In January and February of this year, domestic enterprises produced 161.7 thousand tons of chocolate and cocoa-containing food products in packaged form, which is 8.9% more than in the same period of ...

Scares are expected during the Halloween season, but your candy shouldn’t be one of the sources of them. Unfortunately, there are some pretty horrifying practices that go on in the making of some of ...