Cocoa
Cocoa and Reduced Cancer Risk
Cocoa, often enjoyed for its delicious taste and mood-boosting benefits, is also attracting interest for its potential health virtues, notably in cancer prevention. This exploration…
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Cocoa Farming in Cameroon
Cameroon, a Central African country, is not a big cocoa producer on the scale of Côte d'Ivoire or Ghana. However, the country has built a significant cocoa industry. Indeed, Cameroon ranks…
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Why Give Chocolate on Valentine's Day?
It is impossible to browse almost any type of retail store in February without seeing displays of pink and red chocolate boxes on every corner. Chocolate has become a standard gift for…
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Improving the Cocoa Genome and Phytozome
According to the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), world cocoa bean production in 2017-2018 was 4.6 million tonnes. Global chocolate brands could not exist without cocoa. But today…
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Compounds in Cocoa Bean Shells May Reverse Obesity-Related Problems
Scientists may have found more reasons to love chocolate.
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Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana Suspend Cocoa Sales and Demand a Minimum Price
Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire have suspended forward sales of cocoa beans for the 2020/21 season as buyers and sellers prepare to discuss a minimum price proposal, industry sources said.
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Côte d'Ivoire: Chocolate Giants Join Forces to Make Cocoa Production More Sustainable
Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest cocoa producer, but its farming has led to massive deforestation. To avoid losing all its forest cover by 2034, the country is exploring new ways of…
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Top 10 Cocoa-Producing Countries
Cocoa originated in Central America more than 5,000 years ago, but its popularity and production have spread around the world. We look at the nations that dominate the world in cocoa…
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History of Chocolate: Chocolate in the American Colonies
In 2009, Mars Incorporated celebrated the publication of Chocolate: History, Culture and Heritage. The book was the culmination of ten years of collaborative research with UC Davis, which…
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The Cocoa Tree
Cocoa (Theobroma cacao), also called the cacao tree, is an evergreen tropical tree (mallow family) grown for its edible seeds, whose scientific name means "food of the gods" in Greek…
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Cocoa Farming
Cocoa beans are the product of the cacao tree. The origin of the cacao tree is disputed. Some say it comes from the Amazon basin of Brazil, others place it in the Orinoco valley in…
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History of Cocoa
Historians believe the Olmecs first discovered that the cocoa fruit was edible by watching rats eat it with gluttonous vigour. They soon realised the tree produced a fruit with a thousand…
