Cocoa and cacao come from the same plant but are not interchangeable. Learn the differences in processing, nutrition, and how to use each.

Drinking cacao changed Matthew Jonas’ life! So much so, he created Good Karma Chocolate with food scientist David Foerstner. Good Karma Chocolate offers bean-to-bar chocolate, drinking cacao, cacao ...

On a Friday evening in late August, my husband and I stumbled upon a sandwich board on Hardwick’s Main Street that promised “Chocolate Upstairs.” We did what any chocolate lovers would do: We opened ...

After almost six years, thousands of meals, and enough accolades to cause any normal person’s head to swell larger than Ohio, there’s only one problem with Edgar Leal’s Cacao. You want to eat ...

In the high elevations of Tublay, Benguet (located about 250 kms from Manila), there are centuries-old cacao trees, most of them criollo, which have been bearing fruit for families over generations.

Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing the spread of the cacao tree. A new study published in Scientific Reports found that the cacao tree, which grows cocoa beans, ...

For a long time, there has been no commonly agreed way of assessing and communicating the quality of cacao, the seed from which stems cocoa and chocolate. Now, however, a new initiative has been ...

Chocolate is a staple in any Easter basket, but don’t fall for the rhetoric that the fancy-pants high cocoa (cacao!) stuff is a lot healthier. Are you a chocolate connoisseur who won’t touch a cocoa ...