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Products delivering what consumers want – indulgence, portion control, better-for-you or simply value – have kept shoppers’ spending steady in the frozen dessert aisle.

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It was long believed that the higher the percentage of cocoa in a chocolate-containing product, such as milk and ice cream, the higher the quality of the chocolate and the more concentrated the source of good-for-you compounds. Today we know that this is not necessarily true.

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