DeWayne Shoemaker is a professor and department head of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee. This story originally featured on The Conversation. It’s almost impossible to ...

The chocolate industry is seeing unprecedented times, with effects rippling all the way to grocery store shelves. This is how ...

Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing the spread of the cacao tree. A new study published in Scientific Reports found that the cacao tree, which grows cocoa beans, ...

Funding: This study was supported by the Programa Nacional de Investigación Científica y Estudios Avanzados (PROCIENCIA) funded by the Project through the Contract N° 026-2016-FONDECYT “Círculo de ...

Have they been playing us all along? In this chapter, Rix explores how our favourite flavours and fragrances may have been fed to us by these unmoving giants.

Cocoa farmers this year will lose an estimated 30 to 40 percent of their crop to pests and disease, and with chocolate prices having risen globally by roughly two-thirds in the past decade, concern is ...

The tropical tree, from whose seeds chocolate and other sweets are produced, has its secrets. Unravelling them is not so easy. Cacao has long been a sought-after raw material for the worlds food ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich — a public research university in Zürich, Switzerland — have developed a type of chocolate that makes use of an agricultural waste stream and is more sustainable and ...

For most of the past two decades, cocoa was a quietly cyclical commodity. From 2010 to 2023, prices bobbed within ...