By Stephen Beech

Chocolate-flavored HONEY has been created by scientists in Brazil.

The team used a product from native stingless bees to extract bioactive compounds - such as caffeine - from chocolate manufacturing waste.

They say the process adds nutritional and commercial value to an ingredient that is usually discarded.

Researchers from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) developed the new product.

It is made from native bee honey and cocoa bean shells and can be consumed directly or used as an ingredient in food and cosmetics, according to a study published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering .

The researchers used native bee honey as an edible solvent to extract stimulants such as theobromine and caffeine, linked to heart health, from cocoa bea

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