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.

You might be surprised to hear that the rich, sweet stuff is made from a fruit — cacao fruit, to be exact, which houses cacao ...

Cacao fruit in the Ecuadorean rainforest, where a cacao-based substance was first ingested In the 17th century, a heated debate blew up between two orders of Catholic monks over whether or not ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao. Cacao ...