A woman holding a chocolate bar with a piece broken off. - OlhaTsiplyar/Shutterstock We live in a society where we can eat almost anything we want in almost any ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...