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The Journey from Cocoa to Chocolate

Preserving Flavor and Bioactive Compounds

  • 1st Edition - October 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ravi Pandiselvam, V. Arun Prasath
  • Language: English

The Journey from Cocoa to Chocolate: Preserving Flavor and Bioactive Compounds provides an end-to-end review of different pre-processing and processing methods and their effect… Read more

Description

The Journey from Cocoa to Chocolate: Preserving Flavor and Bioactive Compounds provides an end-to-end review of different pre-processing and processing methods and their effects on the nutritional, physiochemical, sensorial properties, and health benefits of cocoa. Readers will explore the journey from cocoa beans to chocolate, including recent advances in processing techniques and the utilization of cocoa by-products for improved sustainability and waste reduction. The book emphasizes cocoa's beneficial components, also including retention processing techniques that do not sacrifice sensorial properties. Readers from academia, research, food science, and the chocolate industry will benefit from this new resource.

Cocoa beans contain huge sources of phytochemicals that act as both flavor agents and bioactive compounds. Care must be taken in the processing of cocoa into chocolate in order to maintain cocoa's natural health benefits while enhancing flavor to create the sweet treat we know and love.

Key features

  • Describes the nutritional and pharmacological benefits of cocoa
  • Details the processing of cocoa beans and the development of cocoa products, chocolate, and its flavors
  • Covers the utilization of by-products during cocoa bean processing

Readership

Food scientists and researchers interested in food processing, bioactive compounds, and sensory science

Table of contents

Section I. Science behind the chocolate

1. Cocoa– Cultivation to Harvesting

2. Cocoa– The chemistry of flavors

3. Cocoa bean extraction– Equipments and Tools

4. Fermentation of cocoa beans

5. Dryers for cocoa beans

6. Roasting – Recent Advances

7. Alkalization processing of cocoa beans

8. Recent advances of cocoa conching

9. Deshelling to Tempering: Process and Protocols

10. Factors affecting the flavour of cocoa and cocoa products

11. Development of cocoa products useful on chocolate processing

12. Chocolate: Microstructure

13. Quality and safety issues related to chocolate

14. Health benefits of cocoa and chocolate-Clinical trials and outlook

Section II. Cocoa based by-products

15. Cocoa powders: Beyond chocolate

16. Cocoa husk utilization

17. Cocoa mucilaginous– Value Addition

18. Cocoa bean shell

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

RP

Ravi Pandiselvam

Dr. R. Pandiselvam is a Senior Scientist (Agricultural Engineering) at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. He received his B.Tech. in Agricultural Engineering (2010) and M.Tech. in Agricultural Processing & Food Engineering (2012) from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore. He completed his Ph.D. from TNAU in 2015 and joined ICAR in 2016 as a Scientist at the ICAR-Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Kasaragod, Kerala. During his tenure at CPCRI (2016–2024), Dr. Pandiselvam significantly contributed to the design and development of several post-harvest technologies including a minimal processing machine for tender coconut, a continuous-type coconut testa removing machine, a tender coconut cutting machine, and preservation protocols for trimmed tender coconut. He was also involved in the development and commercialization of value-added coconut-based food products such as Kalpa Krunch, Frozen Coconut Delicacy, and Matured Coconut Water-Based Beverages, benefitting over 40 entrepreneurs. He has trained more than 8,000

stakeholders through demonstrations and capacity-building programs. Dr. Pandiselvam has authored over 100 research and review articles in reputed journals, co-authored 7 books and 67 book chapters, and serves on editorial boards of several international journals. His achievements have been recognized with prestigious awards, including the NAAS Young Scientist Award (2020), NAAS Associate (2021), ISAE Distinguished Service Award (2020), and inclusion in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list by Stanford University & Elsevier. Recently, he was honored with the Rashtriya Krishi Vigyan Puraskar 2025– Young Scientist Award for his outstanding contributions to agricultural engineering and technology dissemination.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India

VP

V. Arun Prasath

Dr. V. Arun Prasath is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India. He received M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Processing and Food Engineering from TNAU during 2012 and 2015. He has got more than Seven years of teaching and research experience in the field of Food Process Engineering. He has 25 research publications, 10 technical popular articles, and 1 book to his credit. His research interests are in the area of post-harvest handling and storage of fresh commodities, Development Nano-Packaging materials, Design and development of processing equipment. He has taught basic engineering as well as advanced food process engineering courses for undergraduate students of various disciplines in Kelappaji College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology (KCAET), Kerala Agricultural University, Tavanur and in Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India