But these cacao beans make up only 30% of the remarkable cacao fruit. The whole cacao fruit is so much more than the cacao ...

Cacao fruit might be the source of cocoa beans but it can be used for more than dessert-y type foods. From pasta infusions to ...

Blue Stripes makes snacks out of every part of the cacao fruit — not just the beans, which are the essential ingredient in chocolate, but also the surrounding pulp and husks.

Growing cacao trees also requires a lot of water, yet only the seeds of the fruit are harvested. One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans — the fermented ...

Climate change is driving more extreme weather events in the region where many cocoa beans are grown. A brother-sister team in Germany is working on a solution: making chocolate without cocoa beans.

Cocoa beans, the processed version of cacao beans, are a main ingredient for the production of chocolate. The beans are found in fruit on trees in Africa, Central America, South America, Indonesia ...

Kim Mishra, main author of the Nature Food study [Valorization of cocoa pod side streams improves nutritional and sustainability aspects of chocolate] , says that the cocoa fruit is similar to the ...

At this point, they look like a pile of crushed up bran flakes. These brownish flakes then get the same treatment as traditional cocoa beans — drying, roasting, grinding. But this all happens much ...

Those statistics are even worse for cocoa, if the fruit is abandoned to use only the beans. "It's like you throw away the apple and just use its seeds. That's what we do right now with the cocoa ...

Growing cacao trees also requires a lot of water, yet only the seeds of the fruit are harvested. One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans — the fermented ...