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Chocolate Science Resources

• [Hands-on experiments! http://chocolate.mit.edu/~chocolatiers/Wiki/index.php?title=DIY]
• Lab for Chocolate Science Poster
• Chocolate researcher Naveen Sinha's presentation "Better Physics Through Chocolate"
• Exploratorium's online chocolate exhibit
• Chocolate Scientists from TCHO
  • Boing Boing interviews TCHO's chocolate technicians
• Some chocolate facts and pictures
• The Chocolate Life: an online chocoholic community
• Blog of a Scharffenberger chocolate scientist and cacao bean selector
• Beckett's The Science of Chocolate book
• Water and chocolate
• The Science of Chocolate: interactive activities on phase transitions, emulsification, and nucleation

Chocolate and Current Events

• Mapping the Cacao Genome
• Chocolate and Slave Labor
• Effects of Global Warming on Cacao Production (PDF download)
• 3D Printing with Chocolate

Suggestions from Professor Patti Christie's Kitchen Chemistry class

Cocoa beans

• Botanical classification of cocoa
• Cocoa bean processing

Chocolate Classifications

• What are different types of chocolate?
• What is the difference between natural and dutch processed cocoa?

Chocolate and the Brain

• Why do we crave chocolate?
• Receptor in the brain that interacts with chocolate

Chocolate and Health

• Health benefits of chocolate
• Chocolate as a drug for Diabetes
• Chemistry of chocolate
• Scientific paper "Cocoa can Prevent High-fat Diet-induced Obesity by Regulating the Expression of Genes for Fatty Acid Metabolism"