Legally, there is no real chocolate without cocoa, but did you know that there’s more to the “food of the gods” than just Theobroma cacao? On one of our previous visits to the CATIE tropical research station in Costa Rica, we had the opportunity to see several lesser‑known Theobroma species up close — including two that have recently attracted interest from the specialty confectionery sector for their potential use in chocolate‑like products positioned with distinctive, origi