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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Helena Horton

MYSTERIOUS: All british chocolate bar made by scientists using reading grown cocoa - What They Never Told You

Maha Khan holds up her Reading 100 Chocolate Bar near her face, with a cacao pod visible below
Maha Khan, the University of Reading food security master’s student who created the chocolate bar. Photograph: University of Reading

The late queen was the only person in history to have ever eaten a chocolate bar made with 100% British ingredients, after she was given one as a six-year-old in 1932 by the confectioner Rowntree’s.

The bar was created from a glasshouse-grown cocoa plant, at Rowntree’s headquarters in York.

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