Forget Belgian truffles and Swiss chocolate – this bar is about as British as they come, with cocoa grown not in the tropics, but in Berkshire.
Researchers from the University of Reading have created a chocolate bar made from entirely British ingredients.
The cocoa pods were grown in a climate–controlled centre at the university before being cracked open to harvest the beans.
These were then spread out, dried and fermented in the English sun, before being crushed into a powder.
This was combined with British–grown sugar and milk to create a chocolate mix which was then heated, shaped and formed into a ready–to–eat chocolate
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