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While many of us are familiar with chocolate, fewer will have tried cacao fruit. If you have got your hands on some fresh ...

Chocolate stands as an undisputed champion, tantalizing taste buds with its rich, velvety allure. Ever wondered how chocolate is made?

Fans of the sweet treat know that dark chocolate has always been more expensive than milk chocolate, which may seem confusing as it has less ingredients.

The tonka bean tree can survive a lightning strike, and thrive. Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts ...

But in the lowland rainforests of Panama, one species of towering tropical tree may have evolved to use this force of nature to its advantage. The tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera) may actually ...

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right ... ground the vanilla bean for lung and ...