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. Bitter chocolate is made by roasting cocoa seeds then pressing them. Cocoa powder is made by crushing bitter chocolate removing the ...

Bottles with chocolate residue, Santa Ana-La Florida(Courtesy Francisco Valdez) Cacao seeds, the raw material used to make chocolate, were being consumed in southeastern Ecuador much earlier than ...

We’re not trying to replace or even compete with agriculture; we're closing the gap between demand and supply," says the CEO ...

NEPC has announced a significant increase in the country’s non-oil export earnings for 2024, reaching a total of $5.456 ...