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 ...

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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 ...

The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

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 ...

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 ...