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When the food company Blue Stripes first began developing recipes in 2018, its CEO and co-founder, Oded Brenner, whirled through the company’s kitchen, tasting everything. Blue Stripes makes snacks ...

But these cacao beans make up only 30% of the remarkable cacao fruit. The whole cacao fruit is so much more than the cacao beans used for processed chocolate chips and popular chocolate bars.

This waste contributes to the chocolate industry's massive climate footprint. One company, Blue Stripes, is trying to address this by creating snacks out of the rest of the cacao fruit normally tossed ...

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the ...

Cacao fruit in the Ecuadorean rainforest ... Only one chocolate bar has ever been made from British-grown cocoa beans Growing cocoa beans is a tricky business. The plants only thrive close ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao.