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Cocoa fruit is emerging as a newcomer, with some major players in the confectionery industry believing in its potential as an ingredient beyond being the global source of cocoa. Products are slowly appearing on…

Cocoa fruit juice is the latest in the world of chocolate. - Photo by Barry Callebaut via ETX Studio NEW YORK, October 27 - Did you know that chocolate can't be eaten just in the form of bars or bars? Of course, it can also be…

The world knows Costa Rica as a destination of breathtaking scenery, from haunting cloud forests to lush jungle rainforests, from tropical beaches to lush green mountains. But there is much more to this beautiful country, the people and…

Apparently I used to make some pretty memorable chocolate truffles. It reminded me of last week when Marie, a friend of my mother's, wondered if by any chance I would make one this year. I had made them so long ago that I had actually…

The ancient inhabitants of Central America knew how to prioritize. Geneticists discovered that they first domesticated the cocoa tree about 3,600 years ago. The discovery doesn't just show that ancient farmers knew what was important. It…

The Birth of Chocolate: Researchers Discover the Cocoa Tree First Appeared in the Amazon Basin 3,600 Years AgoResearchers have analyzed a rare and tasty cocoa variant known as CriolloDiscovered that it was domesticated in…

Growing a cocoa tree - the plant whose pods turn into chocolate - takes patience. It takes three to five years for a cocoa bean to develop into a fruit tree. Each tree produces a limited number of seeds. And these seeds are not the…

Chocolate, produced from the seeds of the cocoa tree Theobroma cacao, is one of the most popular flavors in the world, with sales of around $ 100 billion a year. Yet, as global demand increases, there are concerns that the industry will…

No sooner have the Christmas decorations been put away than the Valentine's Day paraphernalia appears. Stores around the world are dressing up in pinks and reds and bracing for the boom in the torrential sales of flowers, jewelry and, most…

Chocolate beer covers a wide range of flavors and varieties.…

The production of high-quality chocolate and the farmers who grow it will benefit from the chocolatier's recent sequencing and genome assembly, according to an international team led by Claire Lanaud of CIRAD, France, with Mark Guiltinan of…

Chocolate truffles Cheryl Carlin When most of us hear the word chocolate, we imagine a bar, a box…