A master’s student has created what is described as the first fully British chocolate bar made since 1932, using cocoa grown in Reading.
Maha Khan produced the bar after harvesting and processing cocoa cultivated in the Berkshire town. The work brings together the growing, harvesting and processing stages in Britain, making the finished product notable as a wholly British chocolate bar.
The source material identifies Khan as a master’s student and states that the cocoa used for the bar was Reading-grown. It does not give further details on the course, institution, production method, scale of the batch or whether the chocolate will be made commercially available.
The achievement is significant because it is presented as the first 100% British chocolate bar for more than nine decades. The reference point given is 1932, indicating that no comparable fully British chocolate bar had been made since then.
The latest known position is that Khan has successfully created the bar using harvested and processed Reading-grown cocoa. No additional information has been supplied about future production, distribution or further research linked to the project.
