Sentences with phrase «cocoa plant»

At the moment the only way to preserve the diversity of cocoa plants is to grow entire trees.

I have visited chocolate plantations in St. Lucia and the originally cocoa plant is very different from the brightly - wrapped, sugar - filled candy bars that are ubiquitous in grocery stores and gas stations.

The number of higher - yielding cocoa plants the NESTLÉ Cocoa Plan grew & distributed to cocoa farmers in 2015

But combing dense rainforest for cocoa plants is difficult and expensive.

Outside these lands, growers should move toward shade - cocoa farming, which keeps some of the large existing trees, with cocoa plants interspersed among them.

If the world temperature increases two degrees by 2050, it will be virtually impossible to grow cocoa plants at the elevations where current farms are located.

Out of nowhere, Peruvian women came running over to him with a rug and a cup of cocoa tea (an herbal infusion made using the raw leaves of their native cocoa plant).

The route runs through the Atlantic Forest, until we get to São Francisco Farm, where there will be a tour to the local cocoa planting and processing activities, with the opportunity of tasting it right from the tree.

Additionally, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire have also agreed to intensify collaboration, in the field of scientific research for the production of cocoa plants, the improvement of plant varieties, and also to adopt and implement a regional programme to fight against the swollen shoot disease.

To help ease your conscious even more, here are some of the top benefits of dark chocolate: • Lowers blood pressure due to the cocoa plant phenols.

ChocoPerfection still offers all the beneficial antioxidants of regular dark chocolate, in addition to healthy saturated fat from stearic acid in the cocoa plant, which has been proven to lower cholesterol.

After thoroughly reviewing existing literature on the pros and cons of crop diversification, and interviewing local experts, it became clear that some Ghanaian cocoa farmers do diversify — most commonly in the form of shade crops or intercrops at the early stages of the cocoa plant's life — but the approach is uncoordinated and haphazard.

Those are generally linked to the caloric value of chocolate, some inherent chemical compounds of the cocoa plant such as caffeine and theobromine, and a variety of additives we add to chocolate such as sugar or milk.»

Study co-author Gonedele Sere, on left, holds a cocoa plant found at an illegal farm in the Dassioko Forest Reserve in Ivory Coast.

Of the 85 domesticated woody species, Levis discovered that about 20 of them, such as Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) and cocoa plants (Theobroma cacao), were over-represented.

This is due to the high flavonoid content from the cocoa plant, Dr. Bowe says.

A flavanol found in the cocoa plant and green tea, Epicatechin, generated keen interest from the supplement industry.

Flavanols are a naturally occurring antioxidant found in some plants, including the cocoa plant.

In 1572, Bernal Diaz de Castillo described how chocolate was first drunk as a beverage, a bitter - tasting drink made from the cocoa plant and flavored with ground vanilla.

Chocolate is processed from the cocoa plant (Theobroma cacao).

Chocolate is made from the roasted seeds of cocoa plants and contains theobromine, a stimulant related to caffeine; both are toxic to pets.