The confectionery giant has collected 96 varieties and mapped over 300 types of cocoa - the key ingredient for chocolate treats - to 'futureproof' our favourite snacks It's good news for chocolate lovers (Image: PA)

Nestle is creating a “Noah’s Ark” for cocoa beans to protect favourites like Kit Kat and Quality Street from climate change and disease.

The confectionery giant has collected 96 varieties and mapped over 300 types of cocoa - the key ingredient for chocolate treats - to “futureproof” our favourite snacks.

It has teamed up with scientists from America’s Pennsylvania State University, Swiss choc experts and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center in Costa Rica to create the repository. And it has been likened to the Biblical ship that saved on

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