MANY aspects of cacao research require assessment of quality ... often the contents of one or two pods at most, are usually available for examination.

Grows naturally in humid, tropical forests and is native to Mexico, Central America and northern South America The fruit - the cocoa pod - contains seeds surrounded by a white pulp. When the seeds ...

Even the most novice home cooks are familiar with chocolate, but consuming the fleshy fruit surrounding raw cacao seeds isn't ...

“Our cacao tree flowers from about April until August, September, sometime around there — we have a long flowering window — and then it takes the pods probably about three or four months to ripe ...