Chocolate, produced from seeds of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao, is one of the most popular flavors in the world, with sales around 100$ billion dollars per year. Yet, as worldwide demand increases, ...

Cocoa is a commodity of great global importance and wide acceptance among consumers. Known as the chocolate tree, the cacao is cultivated in developing countries. More than 60% of that production is ...

Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University researchers conducted a genomic analysis of fine aroma cocoa from northern Peru, uncovering genetic divergence and evolutionary patterns within ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing ...

Cocoa comes from the Theobroma cacao tree, which forms the basis of a multibillion-dollar U.S. chocolate industry. The seeds are processed into cocoa beans that are the source of cocoa, cocoa butter ...

No sooner have the Christmas decorations been stored away than the Valentine paraphernalia emerges. Shops around the world deck themselves out in pink and red and brace for the torrential sales surge ...

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The scientific name for chocolate is theobroma cacao, which translates as "food of the gods". This title was given to it in the mid-1700s by Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who came up with our ...

Cacao trees evolved around 10 million years ago, earlier than previously believed, new research shows. Considerable genetic variation might remain to be discovered among wild cacao populations, which ...