open cacao pod full of cacao beans with an intact pod behind it on a bed of cacao beans - Atlantide Phototravel/Getty Images When you hear "cacao," your mind probably jumps to decadent chocolate ...
Similar to minerals, oil, and other vital resources, cocoa is overseen by the government through the Ghana Cocoa Board ...
Chocolate comes from the tropical cacao tree. The cacao bean, the rawest form of chocolate, can be harvested and consumed directly (cacao), roasted and turned into powder (cocoa) or made into ...
“Chocolate is chocolate is chocolate, right?” asks food writer Megan Giller. In her new book, “Bean to Bar Chocolate: America’s Craft Chocolate Revolution,” Giller answers her own question — with a ...
LONDON/ACCRA — Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around ...
Cacao and cocoa, derived from the same bean, differ significantly in processing. Cacao, the raw form, retains higher ...
The Founder and Group Managing Director of CapitalSage Holdings, John Alamu, has disclosed that processing cocoa into finished products for export is now far more profitable to Nigeria’s economy than ...