Pastry Chef Helen Hong will share her expertise at creating the best chocolate bon bons at the chocolate festival. Photo by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cacao has a deep cultural significance in Black communities, where there is ancestral wisdom in its history. The journey of cacao ...

Cacao has long been a sought-after raw material for the worlds food industry. At first glance, it therefore seems surprising that biology knows little about the pollination of the cacao tree – ...

Theobroma cacao is the tropical tree that produces the cacao fruit. When the cacao fruit is in its purest form, it's comprised of two components: the sweet white or yellow pulp inside the fruit known ...

The productivity of cacao trees decreases with time, forcing farmers to renew their plantations by either cutting down the old trees or establishing a new crop elsewhere. Frequently, new plantations ...

I took my family to a cacao circle, and it wasn't what I expected at all-and brought up big questions about cacao's history ...

The Hilo Chocolate Festival will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel.

Molecular geneticists have known for about a decade that genomic structural variants can play important roles in the adaptation and speciation of both plants and animals, but their overall influence ...