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

Even the most novice home cooks are familiar with chocolate, but consuming the fleshy fruit surrounding raw cacao beans is anything but a mainstream practice. Cacao fruits are grown on the Theobroma ...

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

That's what chocolate producers have traditionally done with the cocoa fruit - used the beans and disposed of the rest. But now food scientists in Switzerland have come up with a way to make ...

Meiji is launching a new product under its WELLCACAO range, which is made with the company’s proprietary cacao-based ...

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.

She spent many hours helping my grandparents tend to the trees and harvest the cocoa pods - the raw ingredient that is ... but for the people who grow cocoa beans - in countries like Ghana and ...