open cacao pod full of cacao beans with an intact pod behind it on a bed of cacao beans - Atlantide Phototravel/Getty Images When you hear "cacao," your mind probably jumps to decadent chocolate ...

Cacao, the raw beans from which chocolate is made, has many health properties because of its plant compounds, known as flavonoids. These compounds can aid in blood pressure regulation, blood flow, and ...

“Natural” foods are trendy, and proponents claim that little or no processing helps preserve the food’s inherent flavor. Research now published in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry shows ...

Have you ever experienced that perfect moment when a piece of handmade chocolate melts on your tongue, releasing waves of complex flavors? Creating artisanal chocolate goes far beyond mixing cocoa and ...

Step into Juzhong Tan’s chocolate factory located in the University of Delaware’s O.A. Newton Building. Cacao beans clank against a cracking machine as Tan feeds them through to deshell them. The ...

When Brenden Durell, relationship expert on Netflix’s hit show Too Hot to Handle, isn’t talking romance, his next favorite topic is cacao, as the powder is called Latin America. Cacao, made by ...

THE Chocolate Chamber’s expansion into the U.S. market is expected to lift earnings for Philippine cacao farmers as overseas ...

The Founder and Group Managing Director of CapitalSage Holdings, John Alamu, has disclosed that processing cocoa into finished products for export is now far more profitable to Nigeria’s economy than ...

'Natural' foods are trendy, and proponents claim that little or no processing helps preserve the food's inherent flavor. Research now shows that, at least for certain artisanal, bean-to-bar chocolates ...