Ecuador is the king of fine chocolate, known as Cacao. Sixty percent of quality cocoa beans used in Cacao are found in Ecuador. One of the blessings of these chocolate purveyors found is Cacao is ...

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Once the world’s leading producer of cacao beans, Ecuador had become something of a backwater exporter until local companies like Pacari began pioneering a thriving chocolate industry.

Mindo Chocolate Makers is a bean-to-bar chocolatier based in Dexter with an Ann Arbor store at 206 N. 4th Ave.

In Ecuador, researchers are conserving the genetic legacy of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), the raw material of chocolate.

Ecuador grows some of the world's best cocoa but does it make the best chocolate, asks the BBC's Irene Caselli?

This snack company is trying to change the way you think about chocolate Making chocolate wastes most of the cacao plant. Are you ready to try other parts of the cacao fruit?

Experts suggested that pairing certain chocolates with teas can be more beneficial than drinking wine.

For 25 years after that, the generals, the bankers and Liberals gave Ecuador “chocolate prosperity,” based on rich cacao plantations.

Ecuador’s Jama-Coaque Reserve, home to a vibrant cloud forest ecosystem, is part of what may be the world’s most endangered tropical forest, of which only 2.23% remains. Third Millennium ...

Since the U.S. imports cacao beans from the Ivory Coast and Ecuador, chocolate chips for baking are expected to become more expensive.