One whole cacao pod is needed to make a bar of dark chocolate. Worldwide, between 40 and 50 million people depend on cacao or chocolate for their livelihood. One billion cacao trees are needed to ...

The whole fruit is edible and nutritious, but the chocolate industry is known to waste 70% of the cacao pod by only using the ...

Volunteers separate seeds and pulp from halved cacao pods during Friday’s harvest at Maui Ku’ia Estate Chocolate’s Lahaina farm. The workers are sitting next to next to piles of just ...