chocolate

Science and Technology

Three students from Bahia, aged 17 and 18, create sugar-free chocolate for diabetics using 70% cocoa, pumpkin seed flour, and bitter melon, turning school research into a health innovation.

Ruth Rodrigues 10/06/2026 at 17:47

Industry

Could chocolate disappear from the world? Understand why cocoa could vanish in the coming decades and transform the sweet into a rare item.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 25/04/2026 at 08:26

Interesting facts

Why is chocolate so “addictive”? Studies show how chemical compounds activate the brain, trigger intense pleasure, and make it difficult to control consumption.

Caio Aviz 07/04/2026 at 03:12

Interesting facts

Why is chocolate so “addictive”? Studies show how chemical compounds activate the brain, trigger intense pleasure, and make it difficult to control consumption.

Caio Aviz 06/04/2026 at 20:40

Interesting facts

Hershey admitted that it was replacing real chocolate with palm kernel oil in its most famous candies and now, after a flood of complaints, promised to return to the original recipes with real cocoa.

Bruno Teles 05/04/2026 at 18:16

Economy

Premium Brazilian brand born during the pandemic brings fine cocoa from Bahia to Switzerland, Germany, and France, has won 9 awards, and claims to have the 2nd best milk chocolate in the world: meet Luz Cacau.

Carla Teles 04/04/2026 at 12:55

Interesting facts

Giant Chocolate Train, Measuring 55.27 Meters with 22 Cars Weighing Up to 160 Kg Each and 180 Wheels, Enters the Guinness World Records

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 21/02/2026 at 15:12

Pesquisa da Unicamp cria mel com sabor de chocolate a partir de cascas de cacau, rico em compostos bioativos e com aplicações alimentares e cosméticas

Science and Technology

Brazil Solidifies Position Among the World’s Largest Honey Producers and Exports More Than Half of Annual Production

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 20/10/2025 at 12:06

Descubra como a Neugebauer se tornou a mais antiga fábrica de chocolates do Brasil em atividade, sua trajetória centenária, relevância histórica e atual.

Interesting facts

The Oldest Chocolate Factory in Brazil Still in Operation Belongs to Neugebauer and Has Over 130 Years

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 16/10/2025 at 18:50

Economy

M&M’s Owner Races Against Time and Turns to Genetic Engineering to Prevent Chocolate Shortage Caused by Cocoa Cultivation Crisis

Felipe Alves da Silva 08/08/2025 at 10:51

Interesting facts

Food Of The Gods? The Correct Name Of The Tree That Gives Rise To Chocolate And Its History May Surprise Many People

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 30/07/2025 at 14:18

Representação visual da produção de cacau no Brasil, do cultivo artesanal à indústria processadora

Agribusiness

From Small Farmer to Million-Dollar Factory: How Brazilian Cocoa Supports a Billion-Dollar Industry, Faces Power Concentration, and Tries to Survive New Environmental and Global Demands

Felipe Alves da Silva 09/07/2025 at 00:03

Three students from Bahia, aged 17 and 18, create sugar-free chocolate for diabetics using 70% cocoa, pumpkin seed flour, and bitter melon, turning school research into a health innovation.

Could chocolate disappear from the world? Understand why cocoa could vanish in the coming decades and transform the sweet into a rare item.

Why is chocolate so “addictive”? Studies show how chemical compounds activate the brain, trigger intense pleasure, and make it difficult to control consumption.

Why is chocolate so “addictive”? Studies show how chemical compounds activate the brain, trigger intense pleasure, and make it difficult to control consumption.

Hershey admitted that it was replacing real chocolate with palm kernel oil in its most famous candies and now, after a flood of complaints, promised to return to the original recipes with real cocoa.

Premium Brazilian brand born during the pandemic brings fine cocoa from Bahia to Switzerland, Germany, and France, has won 9 awards, and claims to have the 2nd best milk chocolate in the world: meet Luz Cacau.

Giant Chocolate Train, Measuring 55.27 Meters with 22 Cars Weighing Up to 160 Kg Each and 180 Wheels, Enters the Guinness World Records

Brazil Solidifies Position Among the World’s Largest Honey Producers and Exports More Than Half of Annual Production

The Oldest Chocolate Factory in Brazil Still in Operation Belongs to Neugebauer and Has Over 130 Years

M&M’s Owner Races Against Time and Turns to Genetic Engineering to Prevent Chocolate Shortage Caused by Cocoa Cultivation Crisis

Food Of The Gods? The Correct Name Of The Tree That Gives Rise To Chocolate And Its History May Surprise Many People

From Small Farmer to Million-Dollar Factory: How Brazilian Cocoa Supports a Billion-Dollar Industry, Faces Power Concentration, and Tries to Survive New Environmental and Global Demands

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.

Hidden beneath a small entrance in Namibia’s underground, the largest underground lake in the world is the size of 2 football fields, 264 meters deep, and even has rare animals that survive without sunlight.