carob

The company opened its production facility in March, where staff process not cacao beans but carob husks.

Eventually, he settled on the eight most frequently mentioned: desert dates, Yemeni Sidr honey, sycamore figs, Israeli golden raisins, prickly juniper berries, carob fruit, black cumin and frankincense.

I thought bulk bins full of carob-covered raisins were long in my past, so imagine my surprise that carob has made a resurgence of sorts.

The old green Kia saloon sits in the shade of a carob tree just off the main road near Ibiza Town.

In 2013, an environmental inspection found that a third of the carob trees – a plant known to survive in harsh environments – near the SQM mine had died.