When a Spanish shipment of cocoa beans veered off course and was seized off the coast of Britain in the 16th century, its captors assumed the contents were sheep droppings and burned it.

Since January 2023, the price of cocoa beans is up more than 355%. From January 2024 to December 2024, it surged over 143%, hitting an all-time high of $12,565 per metric ton. Year to date ...

Although the Maya weren’t scoffing the bars we know and love today. It all starts with the cacao bean. Yes, we spelled that right - cacao is the Spanish word for chcahuatl, which is what Aztecs ...

Chocolate itself first began as Xocolatl, or “bitter water,” a spiced drink made from ground cacao beans, chiles and spices that originated with the Aztecs and Mayans. Xocolatl “was mostly ...