Chocolate chronicles: A history of the cacao bean ©Getty Images There are few things as sensuous and delicious as chocolate. Whether it is a small piece after dinner, or a chocolate dessert ...

Climate change is driving a cocoa shortage in West Africa, which is leading to price hikes across the industry.

When the seeds are dried in the sun they turn a brownish colour and are known as cocoa beans The ingredients for chocolate - cocoa powder and cocoa butter - are prepared from fermented and roasted ...

Yes, we spelled that right - cacao is the Spanish word for chcahuatl, which is what Aztecs called the beans chocolate is made from. It’s thought that English traders misspelled cacao when they ...

20 Metric Tons of Premium Cacao Beans are now available for purchase in Utah. 40 Metric Tons of Couverture Chocolate is warehoused in Texas, ready for culinary artisans, chocolatiers, and ...

The skyrocketing price of chocolate, due to a bad cocoa harvest ... warned of a "multiyear structural supply-demand deficit in cocoa beans," and that "much higher prices are coming." ...