Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Determined to get some answers, I consulted a few chocolate experts while attending Grenada’s fun-filled Chocolate Festival—an ...

Shopping an aisle of chocolate bars can quickly become overwhelming if you're unsure of the percentage numbers listed on ...

Cocoa and cacao come from the same plant but are not interchangeable. Learn the differences in processing, nutrition, and how to use each.

The chocolate industry is seeing unprecedented times, with effects rippling all the way to grocery store shelves. This is how ...

Testing lab-grown chocolate for the right viscosity. From the Sacramento Business Journal. Even though cacao, the base for chocolate, doesn’t naturally grow in the Sacramento Valley, the region has a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This week, cocoa prices rose to all-time highs on commodity exchanges in London and ...

In Ecuador, researchers are conserving the genetic legacy of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), the raw material of chocolate. Cesar Guillermo Tapia Bastidas, head of Ecuador's national department of ...

Cocoa futures hit a 44-year high, surging to $3,786 per metric ton on Monday, as hotter, drier weather patterns stunt the growth of the cacao bean crop. The warmer, less humid climate in cocoa-growing ...

Whether you’re shopping for hot chocolate mixes or browsing the candy aisle for a sweet treat, you’re almost guaranteed to see "cocoa" or "cacao" on a few product labels. Perhaps curiosity got the ...

The words cocoa and cacao are often used as if they mean the same thing, but they refer to different stages of the same plant. Both come from the seeds of the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. The ...