Supermarket News cited Packaged Facts' market number for the U.S. chocolate market in a piece about growing sales and the impact of marketing the health benefits of chocolate. According to Packaged Facts' research cited in this story, chocolate sales are doing particularly well in the natural food retail channel, with organic chocolate product sales up 20% in 2011 over 2010. Packaged Facts valued the total market at $19.5 billion in 2011, up 6.6% over the previous year.

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