But make sure you stick to chocolate with a high cocoa content.

It began life in 1987 selling corporatebranded mints before it moved into selling premium chocolates with a high cocoa content.

There's obviously a high cocoa content, but it feels like fudge.

Each chocolate contains between 43 and 47 calories, nearly 50 per cent fewer than in other available versions, but has the same sugar and cocoa content.

High cocoa content only, though.

Farms' cocoa crop outputs struggle to match the increasing demand for chocolate.

For ten years, this dynamic was led by the cocoa crop, that used to be the state's main product and its most important source of income.

Growers can begin to move up into the mountains, or they can try other strategies, including replanting rainforest trees to provide shade and cool to their cocoa crops.

An estimated 75% of nutmeg plantations were destroyed, along with nearly all of the island's banana and cocoa crops.

The researchers used a specially prepared cocoa drink which gave participants either a 900mg dose of flavanols a day or a 10mg dose.

Adults were shown to have improved brain functioning after two high-flavanol cocoa drinks daily.

There it was developed into vanilla-flavoured cocoa drinks.

Cocoa's price has soared partly because years of low prices meant lack of investment in the cocoa farms.

Working their own little cocoa farms gave them a considerable degree of autonomy.

There are approximately 4.5 million cocoa farms around the world.

Traditional cocoa farms are planted in the shade among other crops and trees.

Globally, that translates as about 7m coffee, tea and cocoa farmers, fruit growers and their families whose lives have been changed for the good.

Owning this company has given cocoa farmers a voice for the first time.

This bonanza should have transformed the lives of the cocoa farmers after years of poverty and isolation.

No longer would cocoa farmers and their community and country merely wave their precious bounty goodbye, underpaid for it and divorced from the final product.

The critical report led partly to the abolishment of a loan scheme that was open to cocoa farmers.

Put all the ingredients in a blender and whizz until the cocoa nibs have been ground to small pieces.

Fold in the cocoa nibs, reserving some for decoration.

Stir in the cocoa nibs and drizzle one large spoon of golden syrup into the bowl.

Decorate with the reserved cocoa nibs.

Serve chilled, sprinkled with cocoa nibs.

A plantation was set up in the 1890s to teach farmers the correct methods of raising the cocoa plant and other crops.

During recent years, a disease called frosty pod has wrecked havoc on cocoa plants.

She reminds us as we sip that bats pollinate cocoa plants.

The five main focus points within the program are: better quality cocoa plants, train farmers, chain management, improved social circumstances and cooperation with partners.

In 1989 farmers abandoned their cocoa plants due to a fungus that attacked their harvest.

Also, about 5,000 km of cocoa plantation are estimated to be converted to pasture land in the coming years.

His medical activities alternate with the supervision of cocoa plantations.

There are mountains and rivers for hiking, sugar cane and cocoa plantations to visit, small villages to stop in and no end of watersports.

It blends and refines beans from nine cocoa plantations to make a strong and balanced dark chocolate with flavours ranging from cherry to coffee.

Since then agriculture has been neglected and many of the cocoa plantations have returned to the forest.

These concentrated initially on producing sugar and later on cocoa, becoming the world's greatest cocoa producer.

Chocaholics may have to pay more for their daily fix after the world's biggest cocoa producers struck a deal to push up prices.

In addition, another project will be targeting small organic cocoa producers to sustain their income and employment with the purpose of reducing income poverty of 1,000 cocoa producers.

A charity had claimed that national parks and conservation areas in the country were being cleared for cocoa production.

Until the early 1990s, an estimated 40 hectares continued to be added to the total area of 800,000 hectares under cocoa production each year.

Cocoa production also hit a record-breaking 1 million metric tonnes.

Not only cocoa production but even diamonds and timber exports had dropped dramatically.

The new owner, while maintaining cocoa production, cut staff to a minimum.

This has just 25 per cent cocoa solids.

Just make sure you use good-quality chocolate, with 70 to 80 per cent cocoa solids, and you'll be on to a winner.

As for chocolate, make sure it's dark and at least 70 per cent cocoa solids.

Separately melt the 200g dark chocolate (54% cocoa solids) in a bowl over a pan of hot water (bain-marie) on the hob.

For dark chocolate, go for a bar with at least 70% cocoa solids.

Since nibs are directly from the cocoa tree, they contain high amounts of theobromine.

After five or seven years they were paid for each mature cocoa tree on the plot of land.

Similarly, our tastefully rustic villas are tastefully hidden by cocoa trees and, naturally, the bar opens on to a less rustic - but still tasteful - infinity pool.

Aged only eight, he worked long days among the cocoa trees.

The cocoa trees grow on small farms in the rainforest, protected by nutmeg, banana and mango trees.