Fruity, florally, nutty, earthen: Caribbean cocoa inspires the world’s chocolatiers
(Photo via Caribbean Export)
The popularity of dark chocolate throughout the world has surpassed just being a flavour of the month. The rapid growth in demand for fine flavour cocoa, primarily used in the sought- after dark chocolate, over the past five years, is set to continue bringing lucrative benefits to the Caribbean’s fine cocoa industry.
How the region can fully exploit this enhanced business growth through market penetration will be explored at the3rd CARIFORUM-EU Business Forum, being hosted by the Caribbean Export Development Agency, on April 15 – 16, in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
The world cocoa market distinguishes between two broad categories of cocoa beans: ordinary or bulk beans (around 85% of all cocoa worldwide) and fine flavour beans, which are the defining component of high quality chocolate. Together, Latin America and the Caribbean produce 80% of the world’s fine flavour cocoa and, with six of the recognised 17 countries in the world that produce and export the exotic product come from the Caribbean, the collection of small islands have earned their place to feature prominently on the world stage.
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