{"id":10231,"date":"2026-04-03T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/10231\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:29:05","slug":"the-worlds-leading-chocolate-country-not-belgium-but-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/10231\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s leading chocolate country: not Belgium but the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retaildetail.eu\/wp-content\/themes\/retaildetail\/assets\/sources\/images\/book_icon.svg\" alt=\"icon\" title=\"Article\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1000\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/shutterstock_1928682689.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>        <\/p>\n<p>Since 2025, the Netherlands has been the largest exporter of cocoa products. Last year, the country overtook Germany. Interestingly, Belgium\u2014globally known for its chocolate\u2014does not even rank in the top three.<\/p>\n<p>Three times more cocoa revenue<\/p>\n<p>The export value of Dutch cocoa products\u2014including chocolate, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, and cocoa powder\u2014rose from 4.2 billion euros to 12.4 billion euros between 2020 and 2025. That represents nearly a threefold increase in five years. According to Statistics Netherlands, this generates approximately 3 billion euros in export earnings for the Dutch economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2025, the Netherlands has been the largest exporter of cocoa products. Last year, the country overtook Germany.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,137],"class_list":["post-10231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-chocolate"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116343142031833796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}