Inside an opened cacao fruit are anywhere between 20 and 75 smaller white pods, and within each of those is a cocoa bean. Both the fleshy white fruit, also known as Baba, and the beans can be eaten ...
A cocoa processor in Vietnam is converting 5,000 tons of cocoa pods into biochar and heat, cutting drying times from 15 days ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cocoa prices surged 136% between July 2022 and February 2024, according to UNCTAD commodities price monitoring. For the first time ...
Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways to grow cocoa or develop cocoa ...
California Cultured has developed a process to grow cocoa beans in a lab to reduce the environmental impacts of chocolate production. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Chocolate makers are trying to get ahead of ...