Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

There are thousands of varieties of beans in the world. Green, yellow, purple, spotted, or, striped beans with round, flat, ...

According to the National Confectioners Association, the heart of chocolate is the cocoa bean, which are really seeds from ...

It is dried and the seeds can be fermented to make cocoa butter ... Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

According to the National Confectioners Association, the heart of chocolate is the cocoa bean, which are really seeds from the pod-like tropical fruit of the cacao tree. It takes some work to make ...