Nick DiGiovanni turns a raw cacao pod into a chocolate bar, Luke Vincentini turns it back into a cacao pod, you freak out.

Raw cacao is a superfood that can do wonders for your health. Unlike processed chocolate, raw cacao is made from unroasted ...

Walking barefoot across the cool tile floor, her silver face gems twinkling in the sunlight, sound bath practitioner and energy healer Maya Andreeva distributed paper cups filled with brown liquid to ...

On Saturday, 28 March 2026, the family announced the passing of Héctor José Rizek Llabaly, a titan of the Dominican cacao industry. His passing marks the end of an era for a family lineage that ...

Cacao is considered a heart-opener. It stimulates blood flow and is used in ceremonies to foster a willingness to learn, grow and connect. It seems fitting, then, that cacao would be the crop to ...

Cacao beans are processed through fermentation, roasting and grinding to make chocolate flavoring. They only comprise 30% of the harvested weight of the Cacao crop Cacao is harvested as pods, only 30% ...

Cacao powder is similar to cocoa powder, but it's more nutritious overall. (Photo Credit: Moment/Getty Images) Cacao is the name of the small tree native to the Amazon basin that grows cacao, or cocoa ...

After spending years sourcing cacao for the biggest chocolate brands around the world, Rob Weidner discovered a little secret of the cacao industry. Cacao farmers were eating the white fleshy center ...

In ancient Maya civilization, cacao wasn’t just for the elites. Traces of the sacred plant show up in ceramics from all types of neighborhoods and dwellings in and around a former Maya city, ...

Inside the posh Ikao Restaurant, several plates of curated dishes and drinks are laid out on the table in the center of the room – these were the Chocolate Cheesecake Frappe, Wabad de Davao mocktail, ...