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.

Cacao fruit might be the source of cocoa beans but it can be used for more than dessert-y type foods. From pasta infusions to dying shoes, here's the score.

Lamine Keita, a cocoa farmer in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, said he hadn't yet been asked to sell cocoa fruit pulp. "If we can sell more than the beans to increase our income, that's all we can ask for ...

The “whole fruit” on its label is certainly more appealing than the air or fish oil that has previously been substituted for cocoa butter to reduce the saturated fat content of chocolate ...

Lamine Keita, a cocoa farmer in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, said he hadn't yet been asked to sell cocoa fruit pulp. "If we can sell more than the beans to increase our income, that's all we can ask for ...