Associate Professor Akiko Kojima, Graduate School of Human Life Science, Osaka City University, and collaborators have clarified that carob powder extract, which is used as an alternative to cocoa and ...

With climate change and higher incidences of crop diseases, global cocoa production and supply is being threatened. A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS), motivated by these ...

What has a similar taste to chocolate but isn’t chocolate? Carob. Carob is a tree, native to the Mediterranean region, grown for its edible pods. Inside the pods are seeds and pulp. The seeds are ...