Regular chocolate intake is a promising prophylactic strategy against brain aging, but you might not want to give it to your ...

You may have heard people refer to cacao seeds as cocoa beans and wondered if they’re the same thing. They are. And they’re not not beans either. They are the seed of a fruit. And you may have ...

By Malavika Vyawahare Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where ...

Today, over 4.5 million tons of cocoa are consumed around the world every year. Cocoa powder is made from cacao beans, which come from the plant Theobroma cacao L. Cacao beans are the primary ...

The main goal of the USAID/ USDA project, Cacao for Peace (CfP), is “to strengthen Colombia ... From Jun-2015 to Dec-2015, he was an undergraduate visiting scholar in the same department. During this ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao.

Yet women play a critical role in the country’s cacao sector – the biggest in the world and the key raw ingredient to make cocoa powder, the basis of the $110bn (£85bn) global chocolate industry.

The main goal of the USAID/ USDA project, Cacao for Peace (CfP), is “to strengthen Colombia ... From Jun-2015 to Dec-2015, he was an undergraduate visiting scholar in the same department. During this ...