That's what chocolate producers have traditionally done with the cocoa fruit - used the beans and disposed of the rest. But now food scientists in Switzerland have come up with a way to make ...

A significant amount of cocoa fruit is discarded during the conventional chocolate-making process as a result of the process focusing primarily on cocoa beans. The researchers used the waste flesh ...

If it hadn't been for the squirrels, George Matthew's attempt to become a cocoa bean producer might have failed. His farming career began in the 1970s when he inherited a rubber plantation in the ...

Cacao fruit in the Ecuadorean rainforest ... Only one chocolate bar has ever been made from British-grown cocoa beans Growing cocoa beans is a tricky business. The plants only thrive close ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao.

As they took a break from the blistering sun under a marquee, the royal couple heard from Narcisio about the importance of the cocoa bean. William and Catherine tasted the farm's fruit as they ...