Even the most novice home cooks are familiar with chocolate, but consuming the fleshy fruit surrounding raw cacao seeds isn't a common practice. Cacao fruits are grown on the Theobroma cacao tree.

“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 ...

In India, cacao was first planted as a garden tree during the British rule, but large-scale cultivation didn’t begin until ...

Diseases like Black Pod and Swollen Shoot Virus are damaging cocoa crops across Ghana.Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman/The World “This ... Many women farmers lack access to the resources needed to adapt, such ...

Our ability to create 1 ton of cocoa butter from a single cocoa pod and do this anywhere around the world — will secure the future of cocoa production needed to fuel the growing $16B chocolate ...

The cacao plant, which is responsible for making cacao seeds, is having trouble surviving, according to the U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. If this trend continues ...

A young man who runs a cocoa farm business claimed that he made more money than internet fraudsters. He showed off his farm on social media as video trends.

High commodity prices and sustainability concerns prompting investment by likes of Mondelēz into lab-grown versions ...

Celleste Bio, a startup focused on innovative cocoa production methods, has closed a $4.5 million seed funding round led by Supply Change Capital. Notable participants in the round include Mondelēz ...

Cocoa closed out 2024 ahead of every major commodity, after a year of poor weather and weak harvests sparked a triple-digit gain for the bean. Cocoa gained about 172% in the past year, briefly ...