It starts with harvesting, fermenting, drying, and roasting the beans before they're ground ... Conversely, the bulk cocoa sourced by large manufacturers tends to have a more subdued and bitter ...

Cacao beans sold to produce fine-flavor chocolate fetch significantly higher prices: US$5,500–$6,800 per metric ton (t) versus $2,500–$3,000 for the bulk cocoa that makes up 90% of the market.

Giant chocolate makers rely on what in the in the trade is called “bulk” cacao beans: cheaper, lower-quality beans from various farms typically grown on industrial farms in West Africa.

Voyage Foods makes alternatives for products like coffee, peanut butter, and chocolate. But is chocolate really chocolate without the cocoa?

The bulk pack of 2 pounds is a great value ... Plus, it is made from premium Criollo cacao beans from Ecuador, which are rare and represent only 1% of world production. However, some users ...

Tourists are the largest market for Lavaloha’s products, but Bencomo would eventually like to serve as a bulk bean seller. He wants to start a collective system where he buys cacao from farmers for a ...

He adds that Indian farmers need to be producing higher quality beans. "We are not able to compete with international players in the bulk cocoa bean segment,” he says. While there has been ...

Two countries, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, are responsible for over half the global supply of cocoa beans. But climate change is contributing to erratic weather where cocoa beans are grown and ...