Although modern consumers are used to chocolate being sweet and creamy, for most of its history, this treat has been dark and bitter. People in the Americas consumed it for thousands of years before ...

Here’s something that might surprise you: that square of dark chocolate you’ve been feeling guilty about? A cardiologist might actually encourage it. While chocolate has long been relegated to the ...

A: The difference has to do with government standards. In the U.S., dark chocolate (this is chocolate without milk as an additive) is required to have a 15 percent concentration of chocolate liquor.