See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing ...

An expedition saw scientists and cocoa growers travel to the heart of the Peruvian Amazon to study the region's native cocoa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only 10%-20% of cacao flowers are pollinated. carlosgaw/E+ via Getty Images It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without ...

The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), whose beans (cocoa) are used to make products including chocolate, liquor and cocoa butter, may have spread from the Amazon basin to the other regions of South and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Your favorite chocolate treat might be at risk in the future thanks to ...

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—although ...

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he has a new mission: to start a Los Angeles chocolate company. The challenge? Cacao trees don’t grow in the Southern California ...

TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed ...