Why should a site devoted to African and South African cooking have a section on chocolate? Well the reason is very simple Africa produces approximately 80% of the world's cacao bean, the Ivory Coast alone producing 46%.
In this section of the AFRICHEF website, you can look at chocolate recipes ranging from Chocolate mousse, chocolate cakes, and chocolate cookies as well as chocolate cheese-cakes so if you don't want to read further on this page you can click on the menu on the left hand side and choose whichever section of this you're interested in.
There's world overproduction of cacao beans, one of the reasons is that the major chocolate manufacturers have succeeded in putting other vegetable oils in your chocolate and some of them have as high as 50% vegetable fats causing the chocolate not to really be chocolate and contributing to the overproduction of the bean.
Major chocolate manufacturers are lobbying to increase the percentage of vegetable fats, and still be able to call the result chocolate, at present they can't, if they have too high a percentage of vegetable, fats call the end result chocolate.
Although the cacao bean originated in South America when it was introduced to Africa the cacoa bean found the climate extremely conducive to its growth. The end result being that Africa now produces 80% of the world's cocoa bean production, the Ivory Coast alone producing 46% of this production. |
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