This story was originally published by Grist with the headline This snack company is trying to change the way you think about chocolate on May 13, 2025. After working in the food industry for years, I ...

After spending years sourcing cacao for the biggest chocolate brands ... “Think about it, chocolate comes from a fruit actually. And no, it doesn’t taste like chocolate but has its own sweet ...

Cacao is the raw, unprocessed part of the cacao tree used to produce chocolate — and there is no question it's a true treasure. Unfortunately, most chocolate manufacturers today only seek out ...

There are currently no automated harvesting methods for removing the cacao pods from their tree, or at least without damaging them and the fruit inside. Instead, farmers must manually cut each pod ...

Images of whole-fruit chocolate formulations ... mixture with the cacao mass (CM). With too much of either, the chocolate becomes crumbly, while with too little, no solid chocolate forms.

Someone has come up with a way to innovate chocolate, and while Fast Company writes about innovation and innovative ideas a lot, we are here to tell you that innovation has never sounded so ...

Solbeso is made from distilled cacao fruit, and it might be a new spirit category in today’s modern cocktail taxonomy, but it has an ancient history. Long before we grew addicted to the ...

Nestlé has introduced a new chocolate bar made entirely from a cacao fruit, straying away from any ... the chocolate to act as a sweetener with “no compromise on taste, texture and quality ...