While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says ...

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the ...

Cocoa trees are not the most efficient reproducers. Some have estimated that around one in 400-500 cocoa flowers will produce fruit, and only 10% to 30% of pods will reach maturity. Is the future of ...