Difficult weather conditions and disease have affected production in West Africa, which produces about 70% of the world’s cocoa. The two largest producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana, have been hit by a combination of heavy rain, dry heat and disease recently.
Late last year, heavy rain and the spread of black pod disease in the two countries affected farming, according to a November report from the International Cocoa Organization. Poor road conditions also made it difficult to bring the available beans to port, according to the report.
Get ready for your chocolate to have less chocolate in it, and more filler instead.
“Now made with 99.95% chöcolate©️ and 0.05% cocoa”
Honestly, the shrinkflation alone has already soured me on most commercial chocolate products. Candy bars were twice the size when I was a kid - while also costing less.
These days the candy bars you get are all mini/‘fun size’ with the actual mini bars being even smaller.
Basically, it’s just not worth it to buy them. And that’s not even considering the change in recipe that they went through.
50 years from now, people won’t remember what actual chocolate tasted like
Want there already a thing where they gave the farmers American chocolate products and they didn’t believe it was made from their plants?
I remember a documentary touching on that subject but I think it was moreso related to the amount of sugar and processing the cocoa goes through before being sold on the market
Yeah, chocolate is delicious and I love it, but even if made with just cocoa and sugar, it is radically different than what comes off of the plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaCZcdWk1DU
and higher concentrations of genuinely harmful stuff in the cocoa that eventually gets to market