To produce two tons of cocoa butter traditionally, Beressi Golomb said, four tons of cocoa pods are required, using 2,000 trees and over 100,000 square feet (9,290 square meters) of land.

Cocoa trees grow about 20 degrees north and south of the equator in regions with warm weather and abundant rain, including West Africa and South America.

The push to produce cocoa indoors in the U.S. comes after other products, such as chicken meat, have already been grown in labs.

The push to produce cocoa indoors in the U.S. comes after other products, such as chicken meat, have already been grown in labs.

Planet A only supplies other manufacturers, including Swiss chocolate powerhouse Lindt, and ChoViva is used as an ingredient in over a dozen products sold in Germany. It also makes cocoa powder and ...

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“All of this contributes to a potential instability in supply, so it is attractive to these lab-grown or cocoa substitute companies to think of ways to replace that ingredient that we know of as ...