cacao beans
Chocolate's raw seeds
Cacao beans are the seeds of the cacao tree, native to Central and South America.
Fermented, dried, and roasted, they become the raw material for chocolate and cocoa products.
The beans grow inside large pods on the trunk and branches of the tree.
The factory sources its cacao beans from Ecuador.
- nibsPen tip parts
- bitter tasteSharp, unpleasant flavor
- podsEnclosed natural containers
- fermentationMicrobial sugar conversion
- conchingChocolate aeration and grinding
criollo · mole sauce · seeds · shade-grown · flavonoids · ganache · fair trade · roasting · tropical · West Africa · Ghana · confection · grinding · truffles · antioxidants · plantation · dark · cocoa
- chocolatedark, white, bittersweet, cocoa powder, semisweet
- ancient trade goodsgold, silver, copper, silk, spices
- cacaococoa beans, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa solids, theobromine
- Indigenous Tradebartering, trade networks, trade goods, salt trade, regional trade
- primitive moneycowrie shells, cowries, wampum, cocoa beans, gold dust
- moneydollar, euro, coin, cash, pound
processing stage
cacao beanschocolate
Sweet from cacao seeds
cocoa powder · cocoa butter · chocolate liquor · chocolate bar · chocolate bars
agricultural product type
cacao beanscoffee beans
Roasted seeds for brewing
vanilla beans · sugar cane · tea leaves · soybeans · wheat