# Cocoa

All time

# grow your own

A glass-covered chocolate growing factory in London is feeding global demand

Well cocoa, not chocolate. But still, yum.

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Feb 23rd 2015, 3:30 PM

# Chocolate

There'll be something different about Mars bars in Ireland from October

The well-loved bars are going Fairtrade…

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Feb 20th 2015, 8:00 AM

# food of love

Seven out of ten Irish women prefer hot chocolate over sex

A Cadbury Ireland survey found Irish women prefer hot chocolate over hot loving, but is that true? YOU DECIDE.

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Apr 24th 2014, 10:43 AM

Voices

Column: This Easter, think of those who made your chocolate eggs and bunnies

Irish people are now spending more on chocolate per head of population than any other country in the world, but what do we know about where the chocolate we eat comes from, asks Jim Clarken.

Mar 31st 2013, 12:00 PM

# Correlation

Infographic: Does eating more chocolate win you more Nobel prizes?

This slightly tongue-in-cheek paper from an American scientific journal says… possibly.

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Oct 12th 2012, 12:37 PM

# Hurrah

Hooray! Chocolate is actually good for your heart (in moderation)

People who eat more chocolate are less likely to suffer heart disease and strokes, according to a new academic review.

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Aug 30th 2011, 10:52 AM

# Ivory Coast

"Grave abuses" committed in Ivory Coast conflict: report

Ivorian refugees have been pouring into neighbouring Liberia to escape violence.

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Mar 16th 2011, 3:36 PM

# Ivory Coast

Cocoa producers caught up in Ivory Coast threats

EU sanctions mean cocoa beans can’t be exported to their markets, but Ivory Coast’s cocoa board is now threatening to seize what isn’t exported.

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Mar 9th 2011, 8:21 PM