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# Sorry Folks, Climate Change Won't Make Chocolate Taste Better
- URL: https://thechocolatelife.com/sorry-folks-climate-change-wont-make-chocolate-taste-better/
- Published: 2017-12-20T18:24:45.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-01T17:34:32.000Z
- Author: The Archivist
- Tags: TCL Originals

Two years ago, news headlines blared, [Cheese really is crack](http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-cheese-addictive-drugs-20151022-story.html?ref=thechocolatelife.com), citing [research](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25692302?ref=thechocolatelife.com) that was widely misinterpreted as asserting cheese was addictive. Now, it’s chocolate’s turn.

Last week, several publications celebrated [a new study](http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jafc.7b04490?ref=thechocolatelife.com) that highlights the impacts of climate change on cocoa, stating [global warming might make chocolate taste better.](https://modernfarmer.com/2017/12/climate-change-lead-tastier-chocolate/?ref=thechocolatelife.com) [Good news, chocolate-lovers](http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-might-make-chocolate-taste-better-which-gives-us-mixed-feelings-742939?ref=thechocolatelife.com), wrote one outlet, “climate change may have a silver lining’.

Sadly, it’s not true.

Wiebke Niether, the lead researcher of [the study](http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.7b04490?ref=thechocolatelife.com) (published in the *Journal of Agriculture And Food Chemistry*) stresses, “We did not … show that climate change may offer opportunities to produce chocolate with a better taste”

Instead, what they found was evidence that climate change impacts the production of fat and minerals in cacao (the pod-shaped fruit whose seeds become cocoa and chocolate) that, in turn, influence both nutritional value and flavor.

Amazon link to [purchase](http://amzn.to/2jJzA5I?ref=thechocolatelife.com) Simran Sethi’s *Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of the Foods We Love*.

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