Cacao was used by the pre-Columbian populations of the Maya and Aztecs, who venerated it as a sacred food. In Aztec culture, ...

Finally, some good news in the nutrition world: while it's true that most of the foods we love—sweets, ice cream, fries, fast ...

Kindred Forest partners with Volker Lehmann and local families to bring Wild Beniano Cacao from the Amazon direct to the UK ...

What is cacao and where does it come from? The ingredient we call cacao comes from the seeds of the Theobroma cacao tree, ...

Source: Theobroma cacao L. - Plants of the World Online - Kew Science. Researchers analysed pottery vessels from the Santa Ana (La Florida) archaeological site in the highlands of Ecuador ...

Theobroma cacao, the botanical name for chocolate, literally means food of the gods. (In Greek, theo = god(s) and broma = food). Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist who gave us our modern binomial ...