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

If you can find cacao pods at your nearest specialty grocery store ... Cacao Fruit Besides eating this white and slippery ...

Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS Cacao is made from the beans of the Theobroma cacao evergreen tree. The tree belongs to the Malvaceae family, and the beans can be used to make edible products, ...

She spent many hours helping my grandparents tend to the trees and harvest the cocoa pods - the raw ingredient that is eventually processed into the chocolate so many of us enjoy. The more I heard ...

Once removed from their pods, beans go through a fermentation ... process in the production of chocolate, transforming raw cocoa beans into a form suitable for chocolate making," says Sarin ...

High commodity prices and sustainability concerns prompting investment by likes of Mondelēz into lab-grown versions ...

Skyrocketing raw commodity prices and growing sustainability ... Finland’s state-owned research centre, to grow cell-based cocoa pods. Michal Beressi Golomb, chief executive of Celleste Bio: ...