Chocolate lovers often hear that dark chocolate is the healthier choice—but how big is the difference really? Nutrition ...

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is getting federal funding for a sweet cause. N.C. A&T and associate professor Roberta Claro de Silva have been awarded a grant from the U.S.

Chocolate has been around since about 1400 BC. According to Smithsonian Magazine, it’s been used in rituals by the Aztecs and Mayans, valued by kings and queens, and enjoyed in countless forms by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from the University of Nottingham have uncovered how microbes, temperature, and pH combine to shape chocolate ...

In October of 1671, French aristocrat Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, penned a note to her daughter: “I have reconciled myself to chocolate,” she wrote. “I took it the day before ...

What makes chocolate taste and smell so delicious? Chemistry, of course! A variety of molecules work together to create that unmistakable aroma, but those same molecules might carry some unwanted ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Chocolate and science come together in a unique way through one local small business run by an LSU student and her mother. Maram Khalaf is a biological science major at LSU.

Chocolate is more than a sweet treat. Its rich taste begins long before the beans are roasted or molded into bars. A key part of that journey is fermentation, the natural process that gives cocoa its ...