open cacao pod full of cacao beans with an intact pod behind it on a bed of cacao beans - Atlantide Phototravel/Getty Images When you hear "cacao," your mind probably jumps to decadent chocolate ...

DALLAS — “Texans will smoke anything,” said Scott Moore Jr., a Tejas Chocolate co-founder, explaining why his Papua New Guinea bars are one of his top sellers, to a roomful of hopeful chocolate makers ...

A new generation of craft chocolate makers in Brazil is creating bars with “identity.” And they’re helping to sustain the ...

We could soon taste new kinds of chocolate after the discovery of fungi and bacteria that produce fruity and caramel notes from cocoa beans. Chocolate is typically made by fermenting cocoa beans from ...

(The Conversation) – A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nose-to-tail eating has been established for more than a decade but ...

2,959,560 million: The number of cacao beans the LetterPress Chocolate company roasted last year. That’s right, LetterPress Chocolate co-owner David Menkes counts the beans that go into his chocolate ...

Experts have unveiled a novel chocolate product made by infusing native stingless bee honey with bioactives from cocoa bean ...

What do you get when a cacao farmer teams up with an acupuncturist and craniosacral therapist? Based on Beans and Berries, the result is a bar that sells herbal elixirs and cacao-based beverages.