Sure, hot chocolate and hot cocoa may sound the same, but a chef explains just how different these two cold-weather beverages can be from one another.

Celebrate World Chocolate Day by exploring how dark chocolate evolved from a sacred ritual to a brain-boosting, mood-lifting ...

Cacao thrives when rainfall totals between 1,500 and 2,000 millimeters, or about 59 to 79 inches annually, with no dry spells longer than three months, according to the International Cocoa ...

Cacao was prepared only as a beverage and was a food reserved for adult males with prominent roles in society. Columbus' crew captured a canoe that contained mysterious-looking "almonds," later ...

Cacao nibs, also known as cocoa nibs, are crumbled bits of dried cacao beans, which grow on the cacao tree. Cacao nib producers dry and crack the beans into small pieces.

That's the retail price of chocolate. The wholesale price of the key ingredient, cocoa – which is made from fermented, roasted and ground cacao beans – has increased by an astonishing 300% in ...

In Ecuador, researchers are conserving the genetic legacy of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), the raw material of chocolate. Cesar Guillermo Tapia Bastidas, head of Ecuador's national department of ...