CHOCOLATE may soon be in such short supply, it will only be available as a luxury item to the wealthy.
AS CNBC.com reports, increasingly scarce supplies of cocoa beans, ingredient costs and concerns about child slavery involved in cocoa bean production may price one of the world's favourite sweets out of reach for many people.
Substitutes like palm oil and chemical flavourings and fillers will increasingly make up "chocolate" bars, while the real stuff will be at a premium.
The price of cocoa butter, the vegetable fat extracted from cocoa beans which makes up about a quarter of every chocolate bar, has reached a four-year high and whole milk powder, another major component, rose more than 20 per cent.
World Vision has led a campaign to end child labour in cocoa bean production in West African countries like Ivory Coast and Ghana, which are leading global producers.
The world's biggest chocolate consumers are Europeans.
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I don't like chocolate all the much anyway. Specially not in summer when it goes all gluggy if it's not keept in a cool environment. Keep it in the fridge and it goes to hard and loses flavour.
I hate getting chocolate for Christmas.
Bah Humbug 🙂
