Unfortunately, most chocolate manufacturers today only seek out the seeds, also known as beans, inside of the cacao fruit. To make the chocolate we're all familiar with, the beans transform under ...

A close-up of an opened cacao fruit, next to cocoa beans and cocoa powder on a rough wooden table - wasanajai/Shutterstock ...

Idukki’s Mankuva cocoa, a rare and premium variety of cocoa cultivated along the Chinnar river, is on its way to securing the ...

He grips a bright orange pod and slices it neatly at the stem before bending a knee to cut the fruit open ... form of chocolate bars, dried beans and tea at Lavaloha Chocolate Farm in Hilo. “Bringing ...

Place a few seeds/beans between damp paper towels and ... A few will develop fruit and become mature cacao pods in about five months. Though pods may not all ripen at the same time, once ripe ...

Thousands of cocoa farmers across Indonesia are working with businesses and other organizations to protect their crops ...

Some have estimated that around one in 400-500 cocoa flowers will produce fruit, and only 10% to 30% of pods will reach ... Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa produces around 40% of the world's cocoa beans.