There is a lot to love about chocolate and perhaps even more to love about the entire cacao fruit. Cacao is the raw, unprocessed part of the cacao tree used to produce chocolate — and there is ...

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

Many fruits and vegetables, such as the humble spud, pumpkin, and carrots, can also be used from their root to their tip -- and cacao fruit (also known as pods or cherelles) is among them.