The prized Theobroma cacao plant - which chocolate is made from - is under a dual threat from both climate change and disease. Dr James Richardson, a research associate at Royal Botanic Garden ...

No wonder its scientific name, “Theobroma cacao,” literally ... tells me that he prefers to focus on what it takes to plant, grow and harvest his cacao in the West Maui mountains — and ...

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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 ...

In 18 July Nature, Jeffrey Hurst and colleagues at the Hershey Foods Technical Center, Pennsylvania, show that the Mayans were consuming chocolate (Theobroma cacao ... theobromine spike: T. cacao is ...

Cacao nibs are crunchy bits of dried and roasted cacao beans derived from the pods of the Theobroma cacao tree. They can later be turned into chocolate or cocoa powder. Cacao nibs can be enjoyed on ...

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 ...