Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS Cacao is made from the beans of the Theobroma cacao evergreen tree. The tree belongs to the Malvaceae family, and the beans can be used to make edible products, ...

She spent many hours helping my grandparents tend to the trees and harvest the cocoa pods - the raw ingredient that is eventually processed into the chocolate so many of us enjoy. The more I heard ...

There is a lot of money in chocolate but the producers of the raw material see very little ... the fermentation process and observe how the cocoa pods are left outdoors to dry in the sun before ...