http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:02:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Entry: Bill Guyton, World Cocoa Foundation Through the Cocoa Borlaug Fellowship Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Foreign Agricultural Service and the World Cocoa Foundation have supported the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana’s breeding program. In 2008, the program supported cocoa breeder Abu Dadzie to complete a fellowship with the ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/snp-assay-training-at-cocoa-research-institute-of-ghana/ Entry: Bill Guyton, World Cocoa Foundation In 1986, a consortium of chocolate manufacturing companies and The Pennsylvania State University (PSU) established the Penn State Endowed Program to support improvements in cocoa production through research on Theobroma cacao, the chocolate tree. This program operates at PSU with revenues from an endowment, ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/pennsylvania-state-university%e2%80%99s-cocoa-research-program-helping-cocoa-farmers-improve-productivity/ Entry: Robert Peck, World Cocoa Foundation Last week I had the opportunity to visit the department of Huila in Colombia with Bernardo Saenz (Executive Director of Colombia’s National Cocoa Council), Juan Carlos Arroyave and Alberto Agudelo (from the World Cocoa Foundation’s member company Casa Luker) and Ricardo Mejia (from ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/world-cocoa-foundation-field-visit-to-huila-colombia-2/ Entry: Robert Peck, World Cocoa Foundation Last week I had the opportunity to visit the department of Huila in Colombia with Bernardo Saenz (Executive Director of Colombia’s National Cocoa Council), Juan Carlos Arroyave and Alberto Agudelo (from the World Cocoa Foundation’s member company Casa Luker) and Ricardo Mejia (from ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/world-cocoa-foundation-field-visit-to-huila-colombia/ Nutrition had a very nice and comprehensive editorial on the essence of chocolate. It mentions the recently discovered profitable effects of chocolate on the human physiology often mentioned on this blog. In short: Reduction of blood pressure by 6 grams of dark chocolate per day. Probably due to the flavonol epicatechin Reduction of ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/the-essence-of-chocolate/ Nutrition had a very nice and comprehensive editorial on the essence of chocolate. It mentions the recently discovered profitable effects of chocolate on the human physiology often mentioned on this blog. In short: Reduction of blood pressure by 6 grams of dark chocolate per day. Probably due to the flavonol epicatechin Reduction of ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/the-essence-of-chocolate/ Entry: Bill Guyton and Robert Peck, World Cocoa Foundation Medellín, Colombia is situated in a valley about 45 minutes from the airport. This is the headquarters for World Cocoa Foundation member Compañía Nacional de Chocolates (CNCH) who manufactures chocolate products from bean to bar. We had time to tour ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/world-cocoa-foundation-team-visit-to-medellin-colombia/ Entry: Bill Guyton and Robert Peck, World Cocoa Foundation Manizales is a beautiful part of Colombia, best known for its coffee production. As you can see in the photo below, the rolling hillsides are covered with coffee trees which are the economic backbone for this region of Colombia. Manizales, ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/world-cocoa-foundation-trip-to-manizales-colombia/ Recovering alcoholics and addicts have a long history of drinking large amounts of coffee, tea and cola soft drinks. Coffee, tea, cola drinks, chocolate and many foods contain caffeine. A new range of drinks on the market is a variety of high content caffeine drinks such as Red Bull. Caffeine, a stimulant, ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/caffeine-addiction-2/ Recovering alcoholics and addicts have a long history of drinking large amounts of coffee, tea and cola soft drinks. Coffee, tea, cola drinks, chocolate and many foods contain caffeine. A new range of drinks on the market is a variety of high content caffeine drinks such as Red Bull. Caffeine, a stimulant, ... http://xocaichocolatebusiness.com/xocai/chocolate/caffeine-addiction/