It's a headline sure to make people keep reading: Is chocolate good for you? Almost everyone wants the answer to be yes, of course. But there isn't a simple response to be swallowed whole. So ...

At BESSY II, a team has now mapped the local distribution of heavy metals inside the beans. view more Credit: HZB People have been harvesting the beans of the cocoa bush for at least 5000 years.

Kimberly and Priscilla Addison hand-sort their sun-dried cocoa beans before roasting them inside their mom’s oven at their home in Accra, Ghana. After roasting, the sisters transform the beans ...

Life Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis. Pests and disease threaten our supply of cocoa beans, but in a field outside London biologists are working to prevent a ...

Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around the world are ...