US organic chocolate sales booming

Did you buy any organic chocolate last year? If so, you're part of a trend that saw organic chocolate sales soar.

Chocolate is the largest growing snack segment in the U.S. organic market, according to an industry study, with organic sales tallying a 49 percent increase in sales in 2006.

Not that there isn't still a lot of room to expand...

Organic chocolate sales totaled a still small $70.8 million fraction of the market in the year, according to a Euromonitor report cited by the Dagoba Organic Chocolate company, compared with total U.S. chocolate sales in 2006 of about $6 billion.

And here's an interesting factoid I couldn't resist including...

The average American consumes about 12 pounds of chocolate per year, said Cathy Strange, global chocolate buyer for Whole Foods Market Inc.

[via The Sustainable Table]

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