Unfortunately, most chocolate manufacturers today only seek out the seeds, also known as beans, inside of the cacao fruit. To ...

While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

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

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the ...

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German confectionery manufacturers produced fewer chocolate Easter bunnies this year than in 2024, their industry association ...

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.

No one knows the chocolate making process better than Eldora Chocolate owner and founder Steve Prickett, who sources cacao beans from 35 countries, using them to make and sell fine chocolate at his ...

By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. These internationally lauded bean-to-bar chocolate makers source their cacao with care through direct trade ...