Cacao

Dandelion Chocolate: Discover the Real Flavor of Chocolate (Video)

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.22.2012

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Liza de Guia

"I think what we're doing is important, it's important for chocolate. And it's important for us that this type of chocolate is known about." Meet Tod...

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WATCH: Did Someone Say Vegan Chocolate Pudding?

Posted 01.12.2012

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Organic dark chocolate over 70% cacao is not only sexy and delicious, but good for you. Cacao contains over 300 identifiable chemical compounds in...

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Beat The Heat With A Healthy Summertime Smoothie

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 10.22.2011

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Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald

Nothing says refreshment quite like the summertime smoothie. These blended concoctions are a great way to cool down and power up, especially in the summer heat.

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Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: Paying Twice in Colombia to Grow and Kill Legal Crops

Jim Fruchterman | Posted 08.15.2011

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Jim Fruchterman

The US government pays one group of people to help convince people to switch to growing legal crops, and then while paying another group of people to kill illegal crops, they accidentally kill the legal plantings.

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WATCH: Cacao Growers Take Control Over Their Community's Fate

Robin Blotnick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robin Blotnick

The campesinos of the area had decided to stop competing with each other for the measly prices offered by the big cacao buyers, and were now working together to directly market an improved, organic product.

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Science Breakthrough May Mean Tastier Chocolate

BBC News | Katia Moskvitch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scientists have released a draft sequence of the cacao genome, in a move bound to give farmers hopes of higher yields, and consumers - of tastier choc...

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Oh La La: Chocolate! With Brigitte Mars

Brigitte Mars | Posted 11.17.2011

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Brigitte Mars

Cacao is considered an aphrodisiac, antioxidant, cardiotonic, diuretic, emollient, laxative, nervous system stimulant, and nutritive.

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Chocolate: Truly The Food Of The Gods

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011

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Christina Pirello

Originally consumed as a hot liquid, either thick or thin, laced through with hot spice and cinnamon, chocolate tasted nothing like the cloyingly sweet candy we call chocolate today.

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Can Chocolate Save Hawaii?

Anneli Rufus | Posted 11.17.2011

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Anneli Rufus

Sugar cane is all but dead, and pineapple is on its way out. One farmer is pinning his hopes on notoriously fussy cacao trees.

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"Dark Milk" Chocolate Reinvents Classic Treat

New York Times | Julia Moskin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chocolate's dark mood is lightening at last. Until recently, midnight-black, bittersweet bars with punishing percentages of cacao were, like coffee a...

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