Safety in the food industry is gaining more and more importance every passing day. In recent years, several outbreaks of Salmonella have occurred in chocolate products. Traceability and HACCP system are important instruments for the food safety management. Traceability is useful to properly and efficiently handle a recall, but by itself it has no effects on the safety of the production. The HAC...

Polyphenols are found in plant-based foods and beverages, notably apples, berries, citrus fruit, plums, broccoli, cocoa, tea and coffee and many others. There is substantial epidemiological evidence that a diet high in polyphenol-rich fruit, vegetables, cocoa and beverages protects against developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The absorption and metabolism of these compounds ha...

The processing of chocolate bars is influenced by cocoa beans used. Chocolate bar one the downstream products with a simple process. taste and aroma in candy comes from bars. Fermentation an important activity formation flavour. This study aims to determine panellists’ acceptance produced various fermentation treatments sun-dried beans. materials used this were varieties Lindak. variation consi...

<p>The Indonesian government has implemented a policy of exporting cocoa beans through the Minister Finance Regulation No. 67/PMK.011/2010 to stimulate growth processing industry. This article examines policy's effectiveness and impact on study uses literature review method from various secondary data sources. The results revealed that implementation export duty had achieved its goal deve...

Recently, the enrichment of chocolate has become a very interesting topic, along with management food industry by-products, such as cocoa shells. Cocoa shells could be great raw material for industry, both economical reasons (maximized utilization beans) and their functional properties (increased fiber content). In this research, we used untreated high-voltage electrical discharge (HVED)-treate...