cocoa pod
Bean-bearing husk
A cocoa pod is the large, ridged fruit of the cacao tree, typically football-shaped and six to twelve inches long.
The thick outer shell, ranging from yellow to deep red when ripe, contains pulp-covered seeds—cocoa beans—that are fermented, dried, and processed to make chocolate and cocoa powder.
Workers split open the cocoa pods with machetes.
- cacaoTropical pod-bearing tree
- beanEdible legume seed
- cacao butterFat from cocoa beans
- raw cacaoUnprocessed chocolate seed material
- bean to barChocolate made entirely in-house
husk · tree · harvest · harvest season · fermentation · tropical · rainforest · machete · pulp · seeds · plantation · Ecuador · Ghana · bitter · roasting · shell · fruit · ripe
processing state
cocoa podcocoa powder
Pulverized roasted cacao solids
chocolate · cocoa butter · dark chocolate · hot cocoa · chocolate bar