Just five cacao beans a day—that's all you need to help your body fight aging and maintain healthy bones. These small yet ...

On the rainy side of Hawai‘i Island, Daeus Bencomo steps through fresh mud in his cowboy boots, rows of leafy cacao trees on ...

Gardeners who love chocolate may want to grow cacao and make their own chocolate. Cacao trees grow well here in Hawaii and ...

It is dried and the seeds can be fermented to make cocoa butter ... Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

The crop — the raw, unprocessed form of cocoa beans — has two primary harvest ... harvested by hand and then split open to extract the seeds, which undergo fermentation and drying processes ...

In the tropical nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods bearing dozens of seeds. Once harvested, these humble beans are dried, roasted ...

The agricultural export sector of Nigeria has witnessed remarkable growth, primarily fueled by the exports of cocoa beans, cashew nuts, and sesame seeds, according to different data sources ...

Cocoa exports in Africa’s most populous nation surged 606 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. Data from the National Bureau ...