Besides munching on this soft and fibrous fruit straight from the pod, the fruit surrounding the popular cacao seed can also ...

Cakes and cookies: "Toasted cacao nibs add a lovely crunch and deep flavor to cookies, brownies, and cakes," Mehta says.

Cocoa beans, the processed version of cacao beans, are a main ingredient for the production of chocolate. The beans are found in fruit on trees in Africa, Central America, South America ...

Cacao is all hand-planted, hand-pruned and hand-harvested. The harvest is labor intensive. It requires removing the fruit ...

It takes about five years before a cacao tree is mature enough to start producing beans, and the plants remain fragile in the first few years of their life, he says. All the while, consumers ...

Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut on Wednesday said it does not see cocoa bean prices returning to the levels of the 2022 ...

Global chocolate company makes multi-million investment in upcycled cacao brand that produces chocolate using parts of the ...

The cocoa bean market valuation is predicted to exceed USD 26.75 billion by 2032, reported in a research analysis by Global Market Insights Inc. Blockchain technology is being embraced for ...

Cocoa farmers in the world's No.2 producer Ghana are hoarding beans in anticipation of higher prices, industry sources told Reuters, potentially squeezing supplies to a global cocoa market looking to ...

December ICE NY cocoa (CCZ24) today is up +583 (+7.99%), and December ICE London cocoa #7 (CAZ24) is up +317 (+5.24%). Cocoa prices are soaring today, with NY cocoa posting a 3-1/2 week high and ...