Any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the most important ingredient in any chocolate confection. But not ...

It is dried and the seeds can be fermented to make cocoa butter ... Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

When the seeds are dried in the sun they turn a brownish colour and are known as cocoa beans The ingredients for chocolate - cocoa powder and cocoa butter - are prepared from fermented and roasted ...

Cocoa was the best performing commodity in 2024, outpacing even bitcon, as prices surged 132 percent, hitting a record high of ...

If it hadn't been for the squirrels, George Matthew's attempt to become a cocoa bean producer might have failed. His farming career began in the 1970s when he inherited a rubber plantation in the ...