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

but consuming the fleshy fruit surrounding raw cacao seeds isn't a common practice. Cacao fruits are grown on the Theobroma cacao tree. This long and curved fruit is primarily cultivated for its ...

The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.