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Environmental Impacts of Chocolate Production and Consumption

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Trends in Sustainable Chocolate Production

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As one of the most popular desserts and snacks, chocolate contains many polyphenols with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and could affect degenerative diseases. Also, chocolate plays a crucial role in reducing cancer and cardiovascular disease risk. Accordingly, chocolate production and sale are increasing throughout the world. Nonetheless, the increase in the global demand for chocolate production changes the production systems of this agri-food product. Although chocolate production is increasing day by day, this volume production leads to a substantial environmental cost due to changes in production systems. Given the awareness of the irreparable environmental consequences, there is currently significant interest in producing and consuming sustainable food products such as chocolate. However, progress towards eco-friendly sustainable chocolate systems requires improving quantifying environmental impacts. As an international methodology, life cycle assessment is introduced as a systematic tool to model and assess the environmental burdens associated with chocolate throughout its life cycle. To better understand the environmental impacts of the life cycle of chocolate, this chapter provides an overview of the environmental impacts of chocolate production throughout its life cycle. Also, it reviews and compares the environmental problems of chocolate production and presents a clear picture of future perspectives which should be considered in the production of chocolate.

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Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, H., Kiehbadroudinezhad, M. (2022). Environmental Impacts of Chocolate Production and Consumption. In: Galanakis, C.M. (eds) Trends in Sustainable Chocolate Production. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90169-1_7

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