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KAPA’A, KAUAI — In a quiet clearing on the lush, tropical fruit and chocolate plantation ... he begins hacking into a ripe cacao pod, gaining depth and cracking it open to reveal rows of ...

A few will develop fruit and become mature cacao pods in about five months. Though pods may not all ripen at the same time, once ripe they can remain on the tree for up to a month before the beans ...

Blue Stripes makes snacks out of every part of the cacao fruit — not just the beans, which are the essential ingredient in chocolate, but also the surrounding pulp and husks. From trays of ...

and the seeds removed from the fruit. Squirrels seem to be attracted by the sweet pulp around the cacao seeds and usually predated cacao seeds when fruits are nearly ripe enough to harvest.

and soon found himself obsessed with the cacao fruit. 'I took some years to recharge, entrepreneurship is never easy,' the New York based chocolatier told the DailyMail.com of his hiatus between ...

Given the area’s tropical climate, that meant lots of fruits: lilikoi (Hawaiian for passion fruit), cacao pods (yes ... When the fruit is ripe, the pearls are crisp and crunchy, and they ...