Cacao beans from West African regions tend to have ... After all, the Latin name Theobroma, the tree that produces cacao, translates to "food of the gods." There are so many reasons to enjoy ...

Cocoa, known as the 'Food of Gods', is revered for its rich flavor and nutritional benefits. Derived from the cacao tree, it offers various health adv ...

Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University researchers conducted a genomic analysis of fine aroma cocoa from northern ...

New research finds that cacao trees evolved over 7.5 million years ago. DNA studies may help improve future chocolate crops.

THE AZTECS of central Mexico attributed the creation of the cacao beans to their god Quetzalcoatl ... hence the tree’s modern generic Latin name Theobroma cacao, meaning ‘Food of the Gods’.

The history of chocolate starts in the rainforests of the Amazon basin, where the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao ... brew a chocolate beverage from its beans around 1500 BCE. This land that comprised ...

It really is the "food of the gods" The scientific name for chocolate is theobroma cacao ... When a Spanish shipment of cocoa beans veered off course and was seized off the coast of Britain ...

Theobroma cacao, the botanical name for chocolate ... learned the techniques from the Olmec. Since the cacao beans are rich in fat, simply mixing the crushed beans with water would cause the mixture ...

I’ll offer some planting and growing information as well as the basics of bean-to-chocolate making along with some news about an upcoming event to find out more about all of this. Many cacao ...

Cocoa was a gift from the gods. The Mayan word theobroma means food of the gods. Cocoa beans were used at ceremonial sacrifices to the gods.

But is dark chocolate really healthier? Let's find out here. The bitter-sweet chocolate (as it's often called) is made from the seeds of the cacao tree, also called 'Theobroma cacao'. The cacao seeds ...