{"id":37091,"date":"2025-04-18T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/04\/18\/high-cost-of-cheap-chocolate-amid-cocoa-crisis-prices-surge-in-mass-produced-low-quality-chocolate\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:00:24","slug":"high-cost-of-cheap-chocolate-amid-cocoa-crisis-prices-surge-in-mass-produced-low-quality-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/04\/18\/high-cost-of-cheap-chocolate-amid-cocoa-crisis-prices-surge-in-mass-produced-low-quality-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"High cost of cheap chocolate: Amid cocoa crisis, prices surge in mass-produced low-quality chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast, the world&rsquo;s biggest cocoa producer, are struggling as climate change and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years. As mass-produced chocolate prices surge in supermarkets and chain stores, our guest Chocolate Maker Mikkel Frils-Holm has surprisingly not been adversely affected by the cacao crisis. Prior to the chocolate crisis, the high-quality cacao he uses generally cost about 3-4 times as much as his mass-producing colleagues.\u00a0\u00bb And so he sees the surge in prices mainly affecting the \u00ab\u00a0cheap chocolate in the supermarkets.\u00a0\u00bb<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast, the world&rsquo;s biggest cocoa producer, are struggling as climate change and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years. As mass-produced chocolate prices surge in supermarkets and chain stores, our guest Chocolate Maker Mikkel Frils-Holm has surprisingly not been adversely affected by the cacao crisis. Prior to the chocolate crisis, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-37091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}