Chocolate is delicious and chocolate comes from cacao beans, so cacao beans should also be delicious, right? Well, you may ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

Gabriela Glueck, Good Food's Julia Child reporting fellow, visited California Cultured to find out how lab-grown chocolate is ...

A disease called black pod rot is attacking cacao pods, damaging crops and putting the global chocolate supply at risk. The disease, caused by an organism that shrivels cacao pods and destroys the ...

Phytophthora-infected cacao pods develop lesions, which eventually host white fluffy growth before the pods shrivel into a ...

Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and driving up chocolate ...

Conventional chocolate production uses only the beans (30% of the cacao) and discards the rest. Creating demand for the entire pod, farmers gain an opportunity to diversify their income streams.

Also returning for 2025 are Hotel Chocolat’s Nibbly Eggs: a take on traditionally smooth Easter eggs, there are five ...

rotting cacao pods. The impact of climate change extends beyond heat stress. Cacao trees are also sensitive to rainfall patterns. Cacao thrives when rainfall totals between 1,500 and 2,000 ...