The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) produces fruit which houses the substance that later becomes chocolate or cocoa. Find out why the raw form is so healthy.

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Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao. Cacao was ...

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In a development that could help protect one of the world's most beloved agricultural commodities, a research team at Penn State has successfully created disease-resistant cacao plants using ...

More than 4,000 years ago in ancient Mesoamerica—a region that covers much of Mexico and Central America today—the first cacao plants were found. The plant gave us chocolate, which is celebrated ...