The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

Theobroma cacao is the name given to the seed of cacao trees. And the main active alkaloid found within these seeds is theobromine, which is thought to be nutritionally powerful.

Cocoa powder is made from cacao beans, which come from the plant Theobroma cacao L ... plant used to make chocolate is called the cacao tree. It makes a fruit called cacao beans.

A number of crops have been documented there, including corn, sweet potatoes and the cacao tree Theobroma cacao. Traces of chemicals and DNA from the plant were found on pottery, suggesting the ...

Interview with Adam Maxwell, CEO and Founder of Voyage Foods, Inc., and Kelsey Tenney, founding team member and VP of R &D of Voyage.

The world's cocoa – harvested from the Theobroma cacao tree, native to the Amazon rainforest - is now mostly produced in West African countries, principally Ghana and Ivory Coast, and in Latin ...

Cacao is the raw and less-processed form of chocolate harvested from the Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao contains the highest levels of flavanols, so the greater the percentage of cacao listed on the ...

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Cacao is actually a Mayan word meaning ‘God Food’, hence the tree’s modern generic Latin name Theobroma cacao, meaning ‘Food of the Gods’. The word Cacao was corrupted into the more ...