Any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the most important ingredient in any chocolate confection. But not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...