News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Farming
Kocoatrait, India's first zero waste, inclusive and sustainable bean to bar chocolate company, has announced a new initiative to help farmers with their cocoa post-harvesting tasks.
Commodities
A significant increase in the price of raw materials, combined with the costs of energy, logistics and packaging materials are causing problems for Germany’s confectionery industry.
Cocoa
Record global production resulting in a supply excess of 230,000 tonnes anticipated for the 2020-21 cocoa year, says ICCO in its latest update.
While it has the same number of calories per gram as regular sugar, the tooth-friendly ‘slow-carb’ isomaltulose is metabolized very differently to sucrose, and like allulose, should not have to count towards grams of total or added sugar on food labels,...