Chocolate bar made from 100% British ingredients created for first time in nearly 100 years

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Chocolate bar made from 100% British ingredients created for first time in nearly 100 years.

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A chocolate bar made from 100 per cent British ingredients has been created for the first time in nearly 100 years.

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Maha Khan, a master's student studying food security at the University of Reading, produced bar which has not been created since 1932.The cocoa beans used in the bar were cultivated at the university's International Cocoa Quarantine Centre, a climate-controlled facility housing a remarkable collection of more than 300 cocoa plant varieties.After harvesting the pods, Ms Khan sun-dried the beans before grinding them into powder, which she then blended with sugar and milk, both sourced from within Britain.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The project was designed to draw attention to the growing threat that climate change poses to global cocoa production and, by extension, to the United Kingdom's chocolate industry, currently valued at £10.4billion.The last time a wholly British chocolate bar existed was in 1932, when Rowntree's produced one that was presented to the future...

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