Brigham and Women's Hospital-led research reports no significant long-term benefit of cocoa flavanol supplementation in ...

Fava beans also have nutritional advantages ... There are also ways to incorporate even more natural components from the cocoa plant into the manufacturing process. A study published this year ...

Cocoa prices have experienced a significant decline of over 30 percent in 2025, reversing the sharp increases observed in ...

But agriculture modernisation efforts have encouraged the development of "full-sun" monocrop plantations that only focus on growing cocoa beans, without the use of companion plants or trees.

Exporters in the Ivory Coast rejected cocoa beans due to quality issues ... heavy rains, and plant diseases such as the cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV), further disrupted supply.