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St. Valen­tine choco­lates al­ways seek to show how deep your love is. This year, it might just al­so show how deep your pock­ets are.

With the price of co­coa beans set­ting un­prece­dent­ed records on the com­modi­ties mar­ket, it will cer­tain­ly turn the gift of love in­to a big­ger fi­nan­cial com­mit­ment than it once was. Turns out that if love is re­put­ed to be eter­nal, a low price for co­coa, the es­sen­tial in­gre­di­ent in choco­late, is not.

No beans, no Valen­tine’s choco­late