it's quite simple to eat this pulp-like fruit. If you can find cacao pods at your nearest specialty grocery store, you'll be able to eat the soft pulp surrounding the cacao seeds by gently peeling ...

Cacao fruit has an elongated pod shape, and comes in almost all the colors of the rainbow, from red and green to orange and ...

Some cacao trees just couldn’t handle the burden of maturing the fruit. So we cut it off to redirect ... Now, the cacao is flourishing, producing colorful pods full of beans and nibs from ...

The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

The "golden fruit" of his native Waikas forest was Theobroma ... ROGÉRIO ASSIS Mr Mendes went on an expedition to the Waikas forest to see the cocoa pods for himself He found two distinct ...

The chocolate making process starts with the cacao pods. The beans are pulled from the pods and are lightly fermented and dried. Inside the beans are small bits called nibs. They will be ground up ...

The world's top cocoa producer is in the dry season that runs from mid-November to March, when rainfall is low. Farmers said there were enough pods on trees to be harvested in January, but from ...