SNIFFING OUT THE BEST BEANS

摘要

Theo Chocolates, Inc., a Seattle-based organic and fair-trade chocolate company that has been in production for three years, is using "electronic nose" lab techniques to sniff out the best organic cacao beans. The company has won a grant from the Washington Technology Center to develop new lab procedures to take chocolate production beyond the "look and sniff test," the decidedly unscientific way of assessing bean quality that most companies currently employ.