Ivory Coast cocoa farmers are warning of a looming crisis: without financial support and fairer markets, cocoa yields will be “destroyed” by 2030. The West African nation is the biggest producer of ...
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, ...
Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) There are technological and biological wonders inside the ...
TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed ...
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As the Chocolate Crisis Drives Prices Up and Recipes Down, a New Method Turns Carob Tree Pulp into an Ingredient That Tastes Like Cocoa
This search has led a team of researchers to an unlikely candidate—the humble carob pulp, a neglected food by-product. Their study reveals how carob pulp can be transformed into a cocoa-like ...
In Cameroon, the astonishing surge in the price of cocoa has Banyuy Elsie Kinyuy planning the next chapter of her life. In November, the 57-year-old high school tutor bought a 3-hectare (7.4-acre) ...
Cocoa butter, whose use is said to date back to around 460 AD, is made of raw ingredients sourced directly from cacao beans. This naturally occurring fat is a primary ingredient for commercial and ...
Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California ...
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