{"id":89991,"date":"2024-09-10T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=89991"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T12:39:12","slug":"cocoa-free-chocolate-scientists-in-search-of-ways-to-make-chocolate-healthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/89991\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa-free chocolate: Scientists in search of ways to make chocolate healthier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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 worse by climate change, CNN<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

As a result, processing plants have stopped or scaled down production, while major manufacturers have raised prices. This recent crisis adds to other problems with chocolate production; cocoa is one of the leading drivers of illegal deforestation and there has been evidence of child labor and slavery in cocoa farms.<\/p>\n

In addition, growing cacao trees also requires a lot of water.<\/p>\n

One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans. Cocoa-free chocolate is already available but scientists around the world are looking for new ways to make it greener and healthier, using new techniques and ingredients.<\/p>\n

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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 worse by climate change, CNN writes. As a result, processing plants have stopped or scaled down production, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":89644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}