New Research Reveals New Roots For Chocolate

A new study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, October 1, revolutionizes the long-held beliefs about cacao - the tree on which cocoa is grown. For hundreds of years, scientists, historians, chocolate experts and academics have all believed that chocolate came from one of three types of cacao - Criollo, Forastero or Trinitario. The study, “Geographic and Genetic Population Differentiation of the Amazonian Chocolate Tree (Theobroma l.

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Filed under: Biology on October 3rd, 2008