As the ultimate superfood, the whole cacao fruit has a whole lot of untapped potential. Read more: 10 Milk Chocolate Bars, ...

The prized Theobroma cacao plant - which chocolate is made from - is under a dual threat from both climate change and disease. Dr James Richardson, a research associate at Royal Botanic Garden ...

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Those who prefer vanilla, a climbing orchid that bears long podlike fruit, praise its aromatic ... Around 1900 B.C., the Mokayas began to consume Theobroma cacao, a plant that thrives in the ...

It really is the "food of the gods" The scientific name for chocolate is theobroma cacao ... contents were sheep droppings and burned it. Cacao fruit in the Ecuadorean rainforest, where a cacao ...

Afterwards, they harvest a cacao fruit (Theobroma cacao) and split it in half with a machete to offer visitors the beans covered in a soft white, aromatic pulp. The tourists — many of them ...