To make chocolate, cacao farmers start by removing dozens of seeds from the cacao pod along with the white pulp. The seeds are then fermented, but let's dive into what the fermentation process ...

The difficulty of harvesting cacao pods from the rain forest and processing the seeds into the paste that was the basis for the chocolate, and its stimulating effect, elevated the drink to the ...

While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

In the labelling of chocolate the cocoa solids generally include the cocoa butter - it's basically all the bits of the chocolate that are from the cocoa pod rather than the later additives such as ...