Chocolate products are offering more ways than ever to connect with a wealth of on-trend consumer demands. Taste is still tops, of course, but chocolate makers are sweetening the pot by wooing shoppers with sensory delights that can also tout attributes like fair trade, sustainable, clean label, plant-based, less sugar, healthy, premium, and more.
And chocolate consumers around the world know what they want: 83% agree that chocolate needs to be “tasty and good for me,” 67% say they want to know m…