The first 100 per cent British chocolate bar in almost a century has been made using ingredients grown in the UK.
When Britain last produced chocolate with home-grown cocoa, King George V was on the throne, Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister and a bar of the popular sweet treat cost just two pennies.
But now, a food security master’s student at the University of Reading has managed to create the first bar since 1932 using modern scientific technology.
Maha Khan grew the cocoa pods in a climate-controlled centre at the university before they were harvested.
She then spread out and dried the beans in the
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