Chocolate is not at all out of the...

Chocolate is not at all out of the spotlight. From developing consumer runs emphasizing richer products to recently made known findings heralding still more positive nutritional benefits of chocolate, chocolatiers really do have fresh opportunities to capitalize on. Here are a small in number examples of innovators who are anticipating and addressing these changes in the marketplace.

More than sweet

The market for sugar-free chocolate yields has grown so quickly that it has outstripped the yield of maltitol, the polyol, or sugar alcohol, most numerous commonly used as a non-sucrose sweetener.

"The diabetic population is growing at a phenomenal rate," says Tom Urbanski, vice president