The engineering behind your Valentine's chocolate
Our researchers at the Centre for Formulation Engineering are ensuring chocolate looks appealing, melts in the mouth, and is even lower in fat, sugar and salt.
Did you know the first time chocolate was eaten in solid form was 1840? Prior to this, chocolate was only consumed as a beverage. The first pressed chocolate tablets, pastilles and figures were created by chemists in Belgium by the chocolate company Berwaerts.