{"id":68716,"date":"2026-03-11T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/i-took-two-bites-and-had-to-spit-it-out-candy-makers-are-phasing-out-real-cocoa-in-chocolate\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:56:39","slug":"i-took-two-bites-and-had-to-spit-it-out-candy-makers-are-phasing-out-real-cocoa-in-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/i-took-two-bites-and-had-to-spit-it-out-candy-makers-are-phasing-out-real-cocoa-in-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I took two bites and had to spit it out\u2019: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the volatile cocoa market, companies like Hershey are using replacement ingredients such as sugar, oil, milk and nuts<\/p>\n<p>Just before Valentine\u2019s Day, Brad Reese bought a bag of Reese\u2019s Unwrapped Peanut Butter Creme Mini Hearts from his local convenience store in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was a brand-new product, released especially for the holiday, tagline: \u201cWe\u2019ll never break your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reese is a Reese\u2019s aficionado who makes a point of trying everything the company produces. This isn\u2019t a coincidence: he\u2019s one of <em>the<\/em> Reeses, a grandson of HB Reese, the former Hershey dairy farmer who invented the peanut butter cup in 1928. Although he\u2019s never worked for Reese\u2019s or Hershey, which acquired the peanut butter cup company in 1963, Reese considers himself a custodian of HB\u2019s legacy. He also takes an avid interest in the Hershey company and its leadership.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/11\/reeses-hersey-chocolate-candy-cocoa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the volatile cocoa market, companies like Hershey are using replacement ingredients such as sugar, oil, milk and nuts Just before Valentine\u2019s Day, Brad Reese bought a bag of Reese\u2019s Unwrapped Peanut Butter Creme Mini Hearts from his local convenience store in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was a brand-new product, released especially for &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I took two bites and had to spit it out\u2019: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/i-took-two-bites-and-had-to-spit-it-out-candy-makers-are-phasing-out-real-cocoa-in-chocolate\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I took two bites and had to spit it out\u2019: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}