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Inside the lab taste-testing the world's chocolate

Short Wave by NPR

Jun 15, 202610:29Science & Medicine

Could standardizing chocolate help small-scale farmers? Chocolate scientist Julien Simonis thinks it could help persuade consumers to pay for higher quality chocolate, in turn helping out these growers. Every cacao bean...

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Inside the lab taste-testing the world's chocolate is an episode from Short Wave by NPR. Could standardizing chocolate help small-scale farmers? Chocolate scientist Julien Simonis thinks it could help persuade consumers to pay for higher qu...

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Published Jun 15, 2026, 10:29 long, audio available.