What is cacao and where does it come from? The ingredient we call cacao comes from the seeds of the Theobroma cacao tree, native to tropical regions of Central and South America. The cacao tree ...

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

Mix chia seeds with almond milk or low-fat cow milk and let them soak overnight in the fridge. By morning, you’ll have a ...

Bottles with chocolate residue, Santa Ana-La Florida(Courtesy Francisco Valdez) Cacao seeds, the raw material used to make chocolate, were being consumed in southeastern Ecuador much earlier than ...

HUNTINGTON — Although most harvesting is done in the fall, December was the best time for employees at the Huntington Museum of Art to start picking fruits off its tropical cacao plant.

Three micro-entrepreneurs running small cocoa farming businesses were the stars of ‘Seeds for a sustainable future’, an event ...

This vegan chocolate granola recipe uses nutritious ingredients like almonds, cashews, oats, and pumpkin seeds ...

The ingredients for chocolate - cocoa powder and cocoa butter - are prepared from cocoa seeds Chocolate has been a delicacy for much longer than previously thought. Botanical evidence shows the ...

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 ...

It is dried and the seeds can be fermented to make cocoa butter. Bitter chocolate is made by roasting cocoa seeds then pressing them. Cocoa powder is made by crushing bitter chocolate removing the ...