This is about as far as you can get from the world’s boutique chocolate shops. I’m hiking through dense, rain-forest-like vegetation near Venezuela’s central coast, shooing away mosquitoes and ...

PULLMAN, Wash. – Researchers analyzing the genomes of cultivated cacao trees have traced their origin to a “single domestication event” some 3,600 years ago. The discovery opens a new front in a ...

The production of high quality chocolate, and the farmers who grow it, will benefit from the recent sequencing and assembly of the chocolate tree genome. The production of high quality chocolate, and ...

Cultivated cacao trees first emerged 3,600 years ago, researchers have found. A team analyzing the genomes of the tree traced their origin to a 'single domestication event'. The researchers, funded by ...

For all the fame (and high prices) of Belgian and Swiss chocolate, you'd think they invented the stuff. Not so. Thank southern Mexico and northern Central America for the universally craved elixir.

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Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves. Big deal. This is Valentine’s week, when cocoa matters more than crude – and what’s important is that Venezuela produces the world’s best chocolate.

Researchers analyzing the genomes of cultivated cacao trees have traced their origin to a 'single domestication event' some 3,600 years ago. The discovery opens a new front in a long-running argument ...