A farmer displays cocoa beans at a cocoa plantation in the chocolate-producing village of Nglanggeran, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Feb. 25, 2023. Agung Supriyanto / Xinhua via Getty Images
Why you can trust us
Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions.
Scientists from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), along with professionals in the chocolate industry, have found a way to make better use of cocoa fruit to produce not only more sustainable, but also healthier chocolate.
Currently, to make chocolate, producers use the beans found inside the cocoa fruit, but not the pulp or endocarp, an outer shell inside the exterior husk of the cocoa fruit.
However, the ETH researchers, along with…
Read the full article originally published at www.ecowatch.com.