Premium packaging and label design, unique brand backstories, and products that evoke novelty and excitement are highly-sought-after product attributes for craft chocolate consumers, according to ...

Buying a bar of chocolate shouldn’t be an academic exercise, but with the maze of labels available these days, it’s hard not to stand dumbfounded in the chocolate aisle. Most of us resort to the same ...

There's so much more to decipher than just dark or milk. Merlyn is an editor of news and trending content for Food & Wine's news vertical. Her writing focuses on the intersection of pop culture and ...

When you’re casually shopping the chocolate aisle, it’s easy to presume that everything on the shelf in fancy packaging is high quality, but that’s not always the case. Just like wine, fancy packaging ...

Lidl U.S. this month will begin stocking and selling a private-label fair trade-certified chocolate bar that mot only meets minimum pricing standards set by the organization but includes an innovative ...

The growing trend toward artisanal chocolate has many people approaching the substance the same way they do wine — as something to be tasted carefully and appreciated for its subtleties. There’s ...

Eating clean applies just as much to the piece of chocolate you eat as a mood fixer as it does to your daily meals. But how do you identify an artisanal bar? The answer lies in the label. The ...

Shortly after the millennium’s turn, a new generation of small-scale chocolate makers began to emerge. These producers spurned the industrial processes and products that had dominated the chocolate ...