Not only are the plant’s cocoa beans used to make chocolate ... Even the cacao tree’s scientific name, Theobroma cacao, translates to “food of the gods,” which was a title established ...

Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University researchers conducted a genomic analysis of fine aroma cocoa from northern ...

New research finds that cacao trees evolved over 7.5 million years ago. DNA studies may help improve future chocolate crops.

Everybody loves chocolate. There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans from the cacoa plant theobroma cacao, also known as the Chocolate Fruit ...

The scientific name Theobroma cacao was given to the cocoa plant by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. He used drawings from Sloane's collection as the basis of his description. Sloane’s Jamaican collections ...

Cocoa, known as the 'Food of Gods', is revered for its rich flavor and nutritional benefits. Derived from the cacao tree, it offers various health adv ...

It really is the "food of the gods" The scientific name for chocolate is theobroma ... to grow cacao plants on British soil after practising with pineapples. They managed to produce a plant ...