You may think you know all there is about chocolate, but cacao beans are only part of the story. With a rich history, cacao has been used as currency, for medicinal remedies, during spiritual ...

Even the most novice home cooks are familiar with chocolate, but consuming the fleshy fruit surrounding raw cacao seeds isn't a common practice. Cacao fruits are grown on the Theobroma cacao tree.

New York cocoa fell 2.2% to $8,112 a ton, having lost 9% last week. Raw sugar futures rose 3.3% to 18.92 cents per lb, after falling 6% last week. Sugar is being driven by diminishing production ...

A close-up of an opened cacao fruit, next to cocoa beans and cocoa powder on a rough wooden table - wasanajai/Shutterstock ...

The recent assertion from Ghana's newly-elected president John Mahama that Cocobod, the organisation overseeing the second ...

LONDON: Raw sugar futures were higher on Wednesday, supported by dry weather in Brazil and weaker production outlooks in India and Thailand, while cocoa and coffee prices fell. Raw sugar futures ...