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

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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, ...

There is a joke that chocolate is a vegetable because it comes from a tree, and it does — the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao). The chocolate tree is an understory tree, thriving in the reduced light ...

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.

Everybody loves chocolate. There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans from the cacoa plant theobroma cacao, also known as the Chocolate Fruit Tree.

For as much as modern society worships chocolate, cacao — the plant chocolate comes from — was believed to be even more divine to ancient Mayas. The Maya considered cacao beans to be a gift from the ...

Chocolate’s enduring appeal lies in how it interacts with the brain and body ...

BOSTON - Sugar and spice and a whole lot of love make up the recipe for success at Cacao in Boston's South End. Perla Rosario and Leo Baez are the husband-and-wife behind the chocolate shop on ...