![A Battle to Save the World’s Favorite Treat: Chocolate](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/26SCI-CACAO1-superJumbo.jpg)
Media ID: 55384168
Caption:
Media ID: 55381743
Caption:
Media ID: 55374966
Caption:
Media ID: 55364346
Caption:
Caption:
At the International Cacao Collection in Turrialba, Costa Rica, José Antonio Alfaro examined pods — which hold the seeds that make chocolate — treated to resist a devastating fungus. Only a few cacao varieties are widely cultivated, making them susceptible to outbreaks. Credit Mónica Quesada Cordero for The New York Times
![A Battle to Save the World’s Favorite Treat: Chocolate](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/26SCI-CACAO1-superJumbo.jpg)
Caption:
The Abed & Samer Beauty Salon in Beirut is attracting clients with its recently introduced chocolate treatment for hair, a natural alternative to chemical masks. (from Reuters video)
![Chocolate as a Natural Hair Remedy for Women](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/hair.png)
Chocolate as a Natural Hair Remedy for Women
Beirut, London- An unusual new hair treatment is being used in a Lebanon hair salon in an attempt to move away from chemical masks. At the Abed & Samer Beauty Salon in Beirut, hairdressers are applying chocolate to renew damaged hair. “A woman would come from the...Caption:
![Chocolate Lovers Are Safe from Heart Disorders](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/chocolate-box-reuters-graphics.jpg)
Chocolate Lovers Are Safe from Heart Disorders
London- A study conducted in Denmark has said eating small portions of chocolate each week may reduce risks of a common and dangerous disorder in heartbeats. Researchers found that compared with people who ate chocolate less than once a month, the risk of atrial...Caption:
Coffee is now tied with chocolate in Saudi culture, say
exhibitors in Riyadh (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)
![Chocolate Market in Saudi Arabia Grows by 20%](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Chocolate-exhibition.jpg)