Any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the most important ingredient in any chocolate confection. But not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crack open the thick skin and you will find it densely packed with cacao beans ensconced in white flesh. The white flesh is refreshing and tropical, something like lychee or mangosteen. The seeds ...

Chocolate doesn’t grow on trees. What consumers enjoy as chocolate is a product manufactured from the seed of the fruit pod of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) and the flavor of the seeds themselves ...

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

Slowly add MCT oil while blending. Pour into a bowl and top with cacao nibs and hemp seeds. Serve immediately. 1. Mix vinegar and oil together until emulsified, then season with salt and pepper.