Beyond the rough and thick exterior of the fruit lies a white bread-like substance that encases each precious cacao bean.

sweet stuff is made from a fruit — cacao fruit, to be exact, which houses cacao beans. Once processed and sweetened, it's ...

That's what chocolate producers have traditionally done with the cocoa fruit - used the beans and disposed of the rest. But now food scientists in Switzerland have come up with a way to make ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao.

Cocoa nibs, more properly known as cacao nibs, come from the beans (or seeds) of the cacao tree. The fruit of the tree is the cacao pod; each pod contains about 20 to 50 cacao beans. "As the name ...

Although the Maya weren’t scoffing the bars we know and love today. It all starts with the cacao bean. Yes, we spelled that right - cacao is the Spanish word for chcahuatl, which is what Aztecs ...

Grows naturally in humid, tropical forests and is native to Mexico, Central America and northern South America The fruit - the cocoa ... colour and are known as cocoa beans The ingredients for ...