Even the most novice home cooks are familiar with chocolate, but consuming the fleshy fruit surrounding raw cacao seeds isn't a common practice. Cacao fruits are grown on the Theobroma cacao tree.

You might be surprised to hear that the rich, sweet stuff is made from a fruit — cacao fruit, to be exact, which houses cacao ...

Health claims around dark chocolate are often in the spotlight. So could snacking on a square of dark chocolate actually be ...

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Cacao fruit in the Ecuadorean rainforest, where a cacao-based substance was first ingested In the 17th century, a heated debate blew up between two orders of Catholic monks over whether or not ...

Rather than focusing solely on the cacao bean, the company uses the entire cacao plant, from the fruit pulp to the shell across all of their product lines. The brand recently made headlines ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao. Cacao ...

Simply melt the cocoa butter and mix it with cocoa powder and sweetener of your choice to create the base chocolate. Then, add in nuts, dried fruits, or even spices like chili powder to customize your ...