One way to tackle these problems is to make chocolate without using cocoa beans — the fermented seed of the cacao tree. Cocoa-free chocolate is already available but scientists around the world ...

or tempering chocolate for bonbons. In Hawaii, all varieties of cacao grow well. Hanna grows most of her trees from seedlings. It takes three to five years before the tree bears fruit and up to six ...

When it comes to talking about chocolate ... ETH Zürich repurposed the cocoa pod, which contains cocoa beans, the dried and fully fermented seeds of the cacao tree. When cocoa beans are harvested ...

The chocolate industry is having a meltdown ... “We’d never need to cut down a single tree again (to make way for cocoa plantations) — that is an enormous impact.” There are also ways ...