Researchers have identified key factors that influence the flavor of chocolate during the cocoa bean fermentation process, a discovery that could offer chocolate producers a powerful tool to craft ...

The perfect recipe for the finest chocolate flavor has been fermented by the application of science, according to new research. Scientists identified "key" factors that influence the flavor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cacao beans undergoing fermentation on a cacao plantation in the Dominican Republic. (Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group ...

Investigations of this process in several countries unraveled that always the same species of yeast, lactic acid bacteria, and acetic acid bacteria dominate the fermentation, independent of ...

Producing chocolate, one of the world's most beloved sweets, is a multistep process beginning with freshly harvested cocoa beans. People have been experimenting with chocolate-making for millennia, ...

The chocolate industry is having a meltdown. Cocoa prices have doubled since the start of the year, as crops in West Africa — which produces 80% of the world’s cocoa — have been hit by droughts made ...