

Dark Chocolate In Ecuador: From Falloping Gourmets To Multinationals

Dive into the mysteries of black chocolate making in Ecuador through two diametrically opposed trends in the chocolate market. On the one hand, enthusiasts who go to Ecuador collect on the spot some exceptional beans from the fine Nacional Arriba cocoa in order to make their own high-end chocolate plates.On the other hand, the Ecuadorian laboratory Iniap, which has developed hybrid plants produced by successive crosses of selected plants for their productivity and disease resistance. The intensive cultivation of the CCN-51 variety has exploded since the 1960s. Robust and profitable, but with a taste not very appreciated by specialists, it nevertheless represents the bulk of cocoa production in Ecuador.
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