This hot chocolate starts with a real cacao pod, cracked open and turned into rich, velvety cocoa. It’s earthy, bold, and ...

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.

Yes there's nothing as quick and satisfying as Blink-it-ing your favourite bar of chocolate and gorging on it solo. But in ...

Her book, "One Cacao Tree: how to make chocolate from fresh cacao pods," walks readers through the process of making tree-to-bar chocolate… but you'll need to live in a tropical climate to grow cacao.

Cacao pods, beans, and pulp. Paolo Picciotto / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Although these emissions are sizable, waste generally contributes a smaller part of cacao’s carbon ...

“Nearly 70% of the global cacao production takes place in Africa, where black pod rot caused by Phytophthora megakarya is rampant,” Herrera Corzo said. “There, we have an epidemic.” ...

By 2021, she was working full-time on her venture, Colorado Cocoa Pod. Pensack-Rinehart worked in tech before going to pastry school in 2015. That's where she fell in love with chocolate.

Asher Sefami handles cacao pods he and partner Seamus Blackley grew inside a San Gabriel lab. “We didn’t know that the chocolate was going to be different than other chocolate,” Sefami says.

To produce two tons of cocoa butter traditionally, Beressi Golomb said, four tons of cocoa pods are required, using 2,000 trees and over 100,000 square feet (9,290 square meters) of land.