Cacao thrives when rainfall totals between 1,500 and 2,000 millimeters, or about 59 to 79 inches annually, with no dry spells longer than three months, according to the International Cocoa ...

It’s easy to lose yourself in chocolate. The superfood of all superfoods, cacao — the dried seeds at the root of chocolate — is also one of the highest sources of magnesium in nature ...

which contains cocoa beans, the dried and fully fermented seeds of the cacao tree. When cocoa beans are harvested, cocoa pod husks — the outermost shell that constitutes up to 75% of the cocoa ...

Cocoa prices today are sharply lower and posted 1-1/2 week lows as recent rain in West Africa has boosted soil moisture levels, eased dry conditions. and sparked long liquidation pressure in cocoa ...

In a May study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Food, researchers at ETH Zürich repurposed the cocoa pod, which contains cocoa beans, the dried and fully fermented seeds of the cacao ...