Before snuggling up to a warm fire with a hot cup of cocoa this winter, you may want to take a second look at the cup holding the chocolate. The warm beverage may taste more flavorful in an orange cup or cream-colored cup, a new study suggests. Full story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - ICE Futures U.S. said on Friday that certified cocoa stored in a Continental Terminals warehouse in New Jersey has been damaged by water following Hurricane Sandy. Full story
(Reuters) - The Hershey Co <HSY.N> should turn over records that could reveal the leading U.S. chocolate maker violated federal child trafficking laws by using cocoa from West Africa, according to a lawsuit filed by a public pension fund. Full story
DIVO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Extortion at illegal roadblocks manned by police, soldiers and customs officials has increased in Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions in recent months and threatens to undermine reforms aimed at improving farmer incomes, officials said on Thursday. Full story
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A $350-million campaign to boost cocoa yields in Indonesia, the world's third largest producer of the chocolate ingredient, is turning sour as re-planted trees are still prone to disease, have poor roots and have been producing beans of poor quality. Full story
PINRANG/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Nurhaedah, a vivacious Indonesian cocoa trader, shakes her head in disappointment as she sifts through a pile of blackened, shrivelled beans. Yet another crop from "Frankentrees": weak, misshapen cocoa trees toppling under their own weight. Full story
Cocoa surges in corrective rally and orange juice futures plunge in "full-on liquidation," reports CNBC's Sharon Epperson.
A farmer cuts his cocoa tree to make way for a palm oil plantation in Kolaka in Indonesia's southeast Sulawesi province in this September 4, 2012 file photograph. Global cocoa prices could more than double by 2020, rallying to a level last seen 36 years ago, if production fails to catch up with dem
A worker walks past sacks of cocoa beans owned by PT Bumitangerang Mesindotama, Indonesia's third largest cocoa's grinder, in Tangerang, West Java in this March 14, 2012 file photograph. Global cocoa prices could more than double by 2020, rallying to a level last seen 36 years ago, if production fai
A bowl containing cocoa beans are displayed at "La Manufacture de chocolat" chocolate workshop in Paris February 19, 2013. French chef Alain Ducasse and pastry chef Nicolas Berger open the bean-to-bar chocolate making business where they will roast and grind their own cocoa beans to make slabs of c
French chef Alain Ducasse poses in front of sacks containing cocoa beans at "La Manufacture de chocolat" chocolate workshop in Paris February 19, 2013. Ducasse and and pastry chef Nicolas Berger open their bean-to-bar chocolate making business where they will roast and grind their own cocoa beans t
