Chocolate is made by roasting and grinding up cocoa beans to yield chocolate 'liquor'. This comprises around 50 per cent cocoa solids and 50 per cent cocoa butter (the fat from the beans).

The large grinding volumes could be due to fears of future shortages and processors’ utilisation of last season’s beans, the brokerage added. Cocoa Futures (CC1:COM) were trading around $8,272 ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's cocoa grind rose 16.1% year-on-year in November ... 2024/25 season in October stood at 119,777 tons of beans by the end of November, up 1.6% from the same point ...