Everybody loves chocolate. There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans from the cacoa plant theobroma cacao, also known as the Chocolate Fruit Tree.

You may think you know all there is about chocolate, but cacao beans are only part of the story. With a rich history, cacao ...

Researchers have developed a type of chocolate that is more sustainable and nutritious than conventional varieties. Cocoa-fruit chocolate uses cocoa fruit jelly as a replacement for powdered sugar, ...

There is a joke that chocolate is a vegetable because it comes from a tree, and it does — the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao). The chocolate tree is an understory tree, thriving in the reduced light ...

For many people, chocolate is a sweet delight: its main components are cocoa mass and cocoa butter, which are extracted from the cocoa fruit. What is less known, however, is that the cocoa fruit ...

Barry Callebaut has debuted the world’s first chocolate made with the entire cacao fruit in San Francisco, including its nutrient-dense peel and fruity pulp juice. The Swiss chocolatier said its ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich — a public research university in Zürich, Switzerland — have developed a type of chocolate that makes use of an agricultural waste stream and is more sustainable and ...