Jade Mountain also runs an organic farm and there is an on site chocolate laboratory making chocolate from their own estate
grown cocoa trees.
Reporting in ACS» Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, they say that although the agricultural method used to
grow cocoa trees doesn't matter that much, the specific weather conditions do.
Not exact matches
Chocolate's Carbon Footprint: It takes a year for a
cocoa tree to
grow enough
cocoa to make half a pound of chocolate.
At the moment the only way to preserve the diversity of
cocoa plants is to
grow entire
trees.
A few weeks later, while volunteering on a botany project in Guatemala's coastal rainforest, he noticed
cocoa trees growing everywhere.
With nut
trees needing sufficiently cold temperatures to
grow, flavours including Chunky Monkey and Coconut Seven Layer Bar could face extinction, while Brownie Batter and Phish Food could be in short supply within just two years, with
cocoa production at risk of falling by up to 50 per cent.