Most commercial dark chocolate combines the fruit from the cocoa nut with sugar from sugar beets. But now, Swiss scientists show how we can use the outer layer of the cocoa pod to sweeten our delectable treat.
Author: Lauren Gandy
Lauren obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2023 in the area of protein-glycan interactions with post-translational modified proteins relevant to Alzheimer's disease. She obtained her B.S. in Forensic Biochemistry and B.A. in French at the University of Central Florida in 2017. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in glycobiology at the University of Paris at Créteil.
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