Consumers Expected To Spend More This Valentine’s Day
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The average adult plans on spending $116.21 on Valentine’s Day gifts and merchandise, a 12.8 percent increase from last year’s $103, according to a survey conducted for the National...
View ArticleNew Brand Of Dark Chocolate Made Just For Pregnant Women
IRVINE (CBS) — Guilt-free chocolate with vitamins that help a growing fetus? Yes, please! Coco Preggers, created by Irvine-based Xan Confections, contains folic acid which prevents birth defects, and...
View ArticleCivil War In Ivory Coast Sends LA Chocolate Prices Soaring
BEVERLY HILLS (CBS) — As the dramatic battle for power continues to rage in the Ivory Coast, the ongoing civil war has brought cocoa bean exports to a halt — a bitter development for local chocolate...
View ArticleLAUSD, Other Districts May Ban Chocolate Milk
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chocolate milk has long been seen as the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down, but the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic has a growing number of people wondering...
View ArticleLAUSD Eliminate Flavored Milk From Schools
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Los Angeles Unified School District voted to eliminate flavored milk from school lunch menus Tuesday The school board chose to eliminate chocolate and strawberry milk options from...
View ArticleSweet Tooth Still Sour: Chocolate Makers Look For Foothold In China
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When it comes to sweets, Americans may not consider the occasional candy bar a luxury, but the same can’t be said for our counterparts in the Far East. Chocolate makers in...
View ArticleFood For Thought – 5 Foods To Enhance Brain Function
Here comes that dreaded tax deadline. With the day of reckoning nearly upon us, it’s time to sharpen up the mind (and the pencil) in preparation for the daunting task ahead of us. Sleep and healthy...
View ArticleSavor The Best In Chocolate, Pastry At Indulge LA Show
CENTURY CITY (CBSLA.com) — Got a sweet tooth? You won’t want to miss the Los Angeles Chocolate Festival and Pastry Show Saturday. Alan Semsar and Ed Engoron, of Indulge LA, say the event features the...
View ArticleDowntown LA Eatery Combines Fried Chicken With…Chocolate?!
http://media.losangeles.cbslocal.com/CBSLA_2805201423235201686AA.mp4 LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A downtown Los Angeles eatery has combined fried chicken with…chocolate?! KCAL9’s Brittney Hopper reports...
View Article11 Exotic Chocolates for a Sweeter Easter
By Melissa Locker It’s hard to complain when a giant a rabbit drops off unsolicited baskets full of candy at your doorstep. After all, one should never balk at free chocolate. However, if the bunny is...
View ArticleEating Chocolate For Breakfast Is Good For You, Studies Find
CBS Local — Kids around the globe can now officially celebrate as a new report that looked at several recent studies has come to the conclusion that having chocolate for breakfast can actually improve...
View ArticleScientists Say Chocolate May Be Extinct By 2050, Look To Genetically Modify...
LOS ANGELES (CBS Local) – Chocolate lovers, you may want to sit down before reading this. Scientists are forecasting that climate change may force the plants that produce chocolate into extinction by...
View ArticleCould Chocolate Soon Be Extinct?
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Climate change could make chocolate obsolete. Scientists predict cacao plants could become extinct by 2050. The plants, which are used to make chocolate and cocoa powder, are...
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