Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing the spread of the cacao tree. A new study published in ...

Tree crops – for example, apple, cherry, olives, nuts, coffee, and cacao – cover more than 183 million hectares worldwide, ...

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 ...

Based on archeological finds, it’s thought that people from Ecuador’s ancient Mayo-Chinchipe culture ingested a cacao-based substance as far back as 3,300 BCE. However, it’s not until the ...

Thanks to goodies like classic chocolate cake and chocolate chip cookies, people in the U.S. eat around 3 billion kilograms ...