Let’s be honest — most of us love chocolate. We enjoy it in ice cream, cakes, candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies, and ...

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.

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, ...

Washington, Oct 25 (PTI) Humans may have started growing cacao trees — the source of chocolate — about 3,600 years ago in Central America, a study has found. Researchers analysed the genomes of ...