Toxic heavy metals are found naturally worldwide in soils that produce the cocoa bean tree -- and those metals are showing up in chocolate, a new report warns. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News ...

Your favorite chocolate treat might be at risk in the future thanks to a virus that is savaging cacao trees. These cacao trees grow the all-important cocoa beans used to create chocolate. Fifty ...

We could soon taste new kinds of chocolate after the discovery of fungi and bacteria that produce fruity and caramel notes from cocoa beans. Chocolate is typically made by fermenting cocoa beans from ...

“The seven-year-old cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) that I’m inspecting in this photo is part of the Model Cocoa Orchard established by the University of the West Indies’ Cocoa Research Centre (CRC), ...