Behind the sweet taste of chocolate: who won't warm their hands around a nice cup of cocoa or bite into a sweet chocolate bar at the bottom of a ski slope this winter? Few, however, tend to think of the chocolate's origins. Even fewer realise that whatever chocolate they are consuming could well be traced back to only one company--the relatively unknown, Swiss-based Barry Callebaut.

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Behind the sweet taste of chocolate: who won't warm their hands around a nice cup of cocoa or bite into a sweet chocolate bar at the bottom of a ski slope this winter? Few, however, tend to think of the chocolate's origins. Even fewer realise that whatever chocolate they are consuming could well be traced back to only one company--the relatively unknown, Swiss-based Barry Callebaut.

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Yes, believe it or not, whether you have handed over a small fortune to pay for a delightful-but-minute box of artisan-made truffles or just picked up a bar of standard milk chocolate, chances are that its core ingredients originate with Barry Callebaut, the world's biggest chocolate maker.

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