She switched to producing cocoa, cocoa butter and chocolate in Ecuador, cold-pressed and partially hand-milled to retain the flavor and aroma.
Flavonols are found in cocoa, and dark chocolate contains more cocoa than milk chocolate does.
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Most cocoa farmers have never tasted chocolate, and produce cocoa beans without any idea of how they will be used, says Timothy Childs, Tcho's founder.
It smells like cocoa powder, and bitter chocolate, and tastes of rich roasted malt, chocolate and coffee, with a hint of dark cherries.
Joe Atiemo of the Cocoa Board of Ghana is one of the believers. (108K AIFF sound or 108K WAV sound) There are plans in the country for more downstream cocoa processing and more factories to export cocoa products, including high-quality chocolate.
Using a variety of jury-rigged spice grinders, heaters and temperature sensors, he has worked out how to get cocoa beans to reveal their complex flavours and to get chocolate to solidify evenly.
Bob Nelmes pointed out that the Ivory Coast produces loads of cocoa -- and that Canadians love drinking hot chocolate, especially during the wintertime.
Or take your chocolate straight and chomp on raw cocoa beans.
The one-hour, guided walk moves through a candy-coloured maze of equipment as a Theo employee explains how the company sources its cocoa beans and what their techniques are for turning them into chocolate.
The package takes in a tour of a local cheese factory and features a chocolate making workshop illustrating the links between the cocoa produced by its Fairtrade twin town in Ghana.
Since at least 2005, the company has been operating a plant in the industrial town of Baddi that produces the cocoa-based drink Bournvita and Cadbury Dairy Milk, a brand of milk chocolate.
The luxury chocolatier sells nothing but chocolate made from superlative cocoa beans -- from Venezuela, Ecuador, the Caribbean, Africa and Madagascar -- in various guises: ganaches, pralines, tarts, cakes and their infamous chocolate eclair.
Two of the nation's most popular milk chocolate bars, Cadbury's Dairy Milk and Mars Galaxy, have a minimum 26% cocoa and 25% respectively.
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