Protein & Nutrition Blog – Marmels

The map on the front of a chocolate bar is doing less work than mostshoppers assume. Single-origin means the cacao came from one definedplace, and nothing more. It is not defined by the United States Food andDrug Administration (FDA), it does not grade the beans, and it saysnothing about how farmers were paid. Here is what the claim actuallycovers, why so little chocolate qualifies when one country suppliesabout 38 percent of world cacao, and how it stacks up against the otherterms on the wrapper.