Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three months ago, I hopped on a plane and traveled to a stunning little Caribbean island known as Grenada. (Or shall I say, Spice ...

Everybody loves chocolate. There’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate and even white chocolate, but they all start with beans from the cacoa plant theobroma cacao, also known as the Chocolate Fruit Tree.

There is a joke that chocolate is a vegetable because it comes from a tree, and it does — the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao). The chocolate tree is an understory tree, thriving in the reduced light ...

Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing the spread of the cacao tree. A new study published in Scientific Reports found that the cacao tree, which grows cocoa beans, ...