Cacao fruit is what chocolate is made from. Learn the history of cacao, how chocolate is made, and the many ways we enjoy ...

Cacao fruit might be the source of cocoa beans but it can be used for more than dessert-y type foods. From pasta infusions to dying shoes, here's the score.

When it comes to countries that produce chocolate, Switzerland and Belgium may be among the first to come to mind. But ...

Stopwatch in hand, dozens of Ivory Coast students raced against the clock to design robots for the farms of the future in the ...

This snack company is trying to change the way you think about chocolate Making chocolate wastes most of the cacao plant. Are you ready to try other parts of the cacao fruit?

Scientists around the world are looking for new ways to make cocoa-free chocolate greener, using new techniques and ingredients.

Climate change is driving more extreme weather events in the region where many cocoa beans are grown. A brother-sister team in Germany is working on a solution: making chocolate without cocoa beans.

Conventional chocolate only makes use of the beans, but the researchers were able to use the flesh and parts of the fruit shell – or the endocarp, to use the field-specific term – for their ...

The main components of conventionally produced chocolate are cocoa mass (beans) and cocoa butter, which are extracted from the cacao fruit.

Growing cacao trees also requires a lot of water, yet only the seeds of the fruit are harvested. One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans — the fermented ...