Now, the cacao is flourishing, producing colorful pods full of beans and nibs from which chocolate is made. A worker transports cacao pods to be husked. -- BRAD PAULSON photo “The neem and panax ...

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Traditionally in chocolate production, 75% of the cacao pod is discarded, with only the beans being processed. Blue Stripes, however, embraces a circular approach by using the entire cacao fruit ...

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.

The beans are then removed from the pods with their surrounding pulp. Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.