Companies are crafting new ways to grow cocoa, and chocolate alternatives

Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly-sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways to grow cocoa or develop cocoa substitutes.

Advanced samples have already been created by agricultural/food scientists across the globe, from Northern California to the country of Israel.

California Cultured, a plant cell culture company, is growing cocoa from cell…