Helmut Melzer
Ukongeza ioyile kunye nekhofi, cocoa yenye yezona zinto zibaluleke kakhulu kwimveliso yehlabathi. Ukuguquguquka kwamaxabiso kunye nentengiso ephezulu yokugxininisa kwintengiso. Ngaphandle kokukhula kwesidingo, uninzi lweentsapho ezincinci alunamali. I-Fairtrade yimbono ebalulekileyo yokugcina ikamva lokutyalwa kwecocoa kwixesha elide.
Uxinzelelo lwexabiso lecooa cocoa lwehlabathi liyaqhubeka ukukhula. Iinkampani ezintlanu okwangoku zenza isibini kwisithathu sokufika kwehlabathi kunye neemveliso zetshokholethi, iiprosesa ezimbini zivelisa iipesenti ezingama-70-80 zetshokholethi yomhlaba.
Ukulinywa kwecocoa ngoyena ndoqo wengeniso kubalimi abangaphezulu kwezigidi ezi-5,5 kumazwe ekuthiwa asahlumayo kwaye kuqinisekiswa indlela yokuphila kwabantu abangaphezu kwezigidi ezili-14.
Yintoni cocoa onokuyenza
Zingama-300 izithako ezikwibhontshisi yecocoa. Zininzi kangangokuba inani labo linokuqikelelwa kuphela ukuza kuthi ga ngoku-kwaye iziphumo zabo zempilo azikaphandwa ngokupheleleyo. Ngokuchasene nenkolelo edumileyo, cocoa yendalo iqulethe ipesenti enye kuphela yeswekile. Esona sithako siphambili, kwelinye icala, sinamafutha: malunga neepesenti ezingama-54 ibhotolo yecocoa ekwibhontshisi, ukongeza kukho iproteyini ye-11,5 yepesenti, isenti yepesenti yesisu, amanzi eepesenti ezintlanu kunye neepesenti ezi-2,6-kubandakanya ipotaziyamu kunye ne-magnesium - kunye nefayibha ebalulekileyo kunye nevithamini E.
Esona sizathu siphambili sokuba cocoa ingakhulisa intlalontle yi-serotonin kunye ne-dopamine equlathe: ezi zinto zinokuba nefuthe lokuphucula imo ebantwini kunye nokwandisa intlalontle.
Kwangelo xesha, iitshokholethi ezinomxholo wecocoa ongaphezulu kwama-70 pesenti kuthiwa kunciphisa uxinzelelo lwegazi kunye nokunciphisa umngcipheko wokubetha. Unobangela walempembelelo zii-flavanols ezininzi ezikuyo, eziphucula ukuqina kwemithambo yegazi.
Olunye ulwazi oluvela eFairtrade Austria
Photo / Ividiyo: I-Fairtrade Austria.
