In ancient Maya civilization, cacao wasn’t just for the elites. Traces of the sacred plant show up in ceramics from all types of neighborhoods and dwellings in and around a former Maya city, ...

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, ...

The suppliers of chocolate to some of the world’s best restaurants now offer the opportunity to get a taste without the difficulty of securing a booking.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...