As you nibble on a chocolate truffle or bite into a chocolate-dipped strawberry on Valentine’s Day, consider the elongated, ...

Mars provides funding for CATIE to ship cacao pods from the center’s germplasm collection to a UF/IFAS lab for inoculation with different Phytophthora species. After a few days, researchers ...

Volunteers separate seeds and pulp from halved cacao pods during Friday’s harvest ... the nuances and varieties of cacao, how each had different notes like wines. “He looked at me and said ...

“This arid environment is very different from the lush jungle ... mostly block trade winds. Now, the cacao is flourishing, producing colorful pods full of beans and nibs from which chocolate ...