Ivory Coast expects to record one of the worst mid-crop cocoa harvests of the last 15 years this season with production seen ...

One study published in the journal Nature Food looks at the potential for using not just cocoa beans, but the cacao pod as a whole. "Surrounding the beans is the pulp, which yields a very sweet ...

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

and cocoa is used to describe the powder made from ground cacao beans. Cacao beans are actually seeds taken from pod-like ...

The beans are then removed from the pods with their surrounding pulp. Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.