North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is getting federal funding for a sweet cause. N.C. A&T and associate professor Roberta Claro de Silva have been awarded a grant from the U.S.

In October of 1671, French aristocrat Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, penned a note to her daughter: “I have reconciled myself to chocolate,” she wrote. “I took it the day before ...

There’s no surprise here, chocolate and Valentine’s Day make the perfect pairing. But why is the decadent dessert universally craved year-round? FOX40’s Bianca Ventura visited none other than ...

Researchers from the University of Nottingham have uncovered how microbes, temperature, and pH combine to shape chocolate flavor—offering a way to standardize and improve the fermentation process.

Healthier chocolate might sound a bit ironic. After all, chocolate is normally made by adding loads of refined sugar to components from the cacao plant. While dark chocolate has less refined sugar, it ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Chocolate and science come together in a unique way through one local small business run by an LSU student and her mother. Maram Khalaf is a biological science major at LSU.

What makes chocolate taste and smell so delicious? Chemistry, of course! A variety of molecules work together to create that unmistakable aroma, but those same molecules might carry some unwanted ...

When you eat a piece of good chocolate, chances are you don’t just bite down and chew away. There’s a good chance you hold the chocolate in your mouth for a moment, feeling the silkiness as it softens ...