The surprising uses of cacao that go beyond chocolate Cacao beans have uses that go beyond being the base ingredient of our hot chocolate mixes or the traditional Easter treats to hide in the garden.

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Cocoa has long provided a lifeline in Ivory Coast but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years.

Grist reports that rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and ...

Cocoa farmers in the world's top-producing country Ivory Coast warn insufficient rainfall could hurt both the quality and ...

Watch the fascinating process of how chocolate is made, starting from the humble cocoa bean. The journey begins with harvesting and fermenting cocoa pods, followed by roasting the beans to bring out ...

Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut lowered its annual sales volume guidance on Thursday due to what it called ...

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A helpful guide to purchasing and working with chocolate, including an easy recipe for ganache that transforms into decadent frosting, mousse and truffles.

Chocolate is trickier since cacao (or cocoa) only grows near the equator ... such thing as entirely Canadian chocolate, these seven bean-to-bar companies are about as close as you can get.

Easter egg hunts could become slightly more difficult and expensive this year - with the chocolate treats rising in price by as much as 56% while shrinking in size, a consumer group has found.