Seamus Blackley, a tech executive known best for inventing the Xbox game console, inspects his cacao trees. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) There are technological and biological wonders inside the ...

Quality chocolate costs more for reasons that start on the farm but then build through labor, climate stress, and global ...

Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing the spread of the cacao tree. A new study published in Scientific Reports found that the cacao tree, which grows cocoa beans, ...

There is a joke that chocolate is a vegetable because it comes from a tree, and it does — the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao). The chocolate tree is an understory tree, thriving in the reduced light ...

Everybody loves chocolate. There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans from the cacoa plant theobroma cacao, also known as the Chocolate Fruit Tree.

Lizzy Davis, Ph.D., an assistant professor with UAB’s Department of Nutrition Sciences, says chocolate can be synonymous with Valentine’s Day because cocoa beans contain tryptophan and ...