Fellow Theonistas know that chocolate from different regions of the world can taste very different - like our Madagascar and Venezuela - worlds apart!
Just how many types of chocolate are there? Well…… analysis of the DNA of Theobroma Cacao (aka: Chocolate Tree) suggests that there are likely thousands and thousands of members of the Cacao family.
Using lots of computing power, the Science Geeks at Theo constructed the world’s first “family tree” of Theobroma Cacao. At left is a sneak peak of what the chocolate family tree looks like so far.
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