WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are getting a better taste of the early history of the domestication and use of cacao - the source of chocolate - thanks to residues detected on a batch of ancient ...

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Cocoa comes from the Theobroma cacao tree, which forms the basis of a multibillion-dollar U.S. chocolate industry. The seeds are processed into cocoa beans that are the source of cocoa, cocoa butter ...

Processed into chocolate the seeds are the basis of many well-liked desserts. Chocolate is perhaps the most popular ingredient for desserts and cakes. It is a prime ingredient for elaborately ...

Chocolate, produced from seeds of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao, is one of the most popular flavors in the world, with sales around 100$ billion dollars per year. Yet, as worldwide demand increases, ...

Here in South Florida, even outdoors, it is possible to grow the tropical tree from which chocolate derives. But you’ll need an awful lot of cacao trees to harvest enough fruit to actually make ...

Ancient South Americans domesticated and consumed cacao, the plant from which chocolate is made, long before other people did, a new study finds. Artifacts with traces of cacao suggest that an ...

Fruits or cacao pods of the cacao tree grow from the main trunk or largest limbs of the tree, a fruiting pattern called cauliflory. Click here for larger image. Photo by Jeff Mitton. On a bleak, ...

Cacao trees evolved around 10 million years ago, earlier than previously believed, new research shows. Considerable genetic variation might remain to be discovered among wild cacao populations, which ...