A novel way to counter climate change is taking place in the German port city of Hamburg. It’s a process that begins with cocoa bean shells going in one end of a factory and coming out as a black ...

Healy Group, the Ireland-based ingredient supplier, has developed a process to turn cocoa shells – an otherwise under-utilised by-product of cocoa production – into a micronised cocoa fibre that can ...

Scientists may have discovered more reasons to love chocolate. A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois suggests that three of the phenolic compounds in cocoa bean shells have powerful ...

Researchers infused honey with components from cocoa bean shells. (Photo For Representation Purpose Only) Imagine a chocolate product with no added sugar, no dairy, and no guilt - yet still rich, ...

As a kid, I was obsessed with Magic Shell, that liquid chocolate you poured over your ice cream that would immediately turn into a hard and crunchy cocoa shell as soon as it hit the ice cream. Like, I ...

A new study suggests that three of the phenolic compounds in cocoa bean shells have powerful effects on the fat and immune cells in mice, potentially reversing the chronic inflammation and insulin ...

Learn how scientists have used ultrasound technology to turn one of chocolate’s biggest waste products into a nutritionally-packed additive for honey. Scientists have just found a way to fuse two of ...

“Are you ready for Christmas.” I am asked this question, very often by my students, acquaintances and sometimes even strangers I meet in a store. You have probably been asked this as well. I recently ...