cocoa beans
Grano de cacao
Kakaobohnen
Какао-бобы
The cacao tree is native to the Amazon rainforest, but you can find them in any tropical region such as South America, in the Pacific Islands such as Hawai’i, and throughout South East Asia.
A cocoa pod (fruit) is about 17 to 20 cm (6.7 to 7.9 in) long and has a rough, leathery rind about 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.18 in) thick filled with sweet, mucilaginous pulp (called baba de cacao in South America) with a lemonade-like taste enclosing 30 to 50 large seeds that are fairly soft and a pale lavender to dark
brownish purple color.
You can eat raw cacao beans straight from the pod.
The white pulp that surrounds the raw cacao beans tastes like a mixture between a sweet melon and a peach.
And the pulp that surrounds raw cacao beans smells like lychees, and has a tropical sweet smell.
The beans themselves taste like a very dark chocolate, that is slightly bitter. But, they still taste quite nice.
They very much taste like cocoa powder which you may have used to make drinking cocoa, but without sugar.
Cacao has been rated the highest antioxidants. Raw cacao is also full of flavanols which increase blood circulation and stimulate brain power.
cocoa beans
Grano de cacao
Kakaobohnen
Какао-бобы
The cacao tree is native to the Amazon rainforest, but you can find them in any tropical region such as South America, in the Pacific Islands such as Hawai’i, and throughout South East Asia.
A cocoa pod (fruit) is about 17 to 20 cm (6.7 to 7.9 in) long and has a rough, leathery rind about 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.18 in) thick filled with sweet, mucilaginous pulp (called baba de cacao in South America) with a lemonade-like taste enclosing 30 to 50 large seeds that are fairly soft and a pale lavender to dark
brownish purple color.
You can eat raw cacao beans straight from the pod.
The white pulp that surrounds the raw cacao beans tastes like a mixture between a sweet melon and a peach.
And the pulp that surrounds raw cacao beans smells like lychees, and has a tropical sweet smell.
The beans themselves taste like a very dark chocolate, that is slightly bitter. But, they still taste quite nice.
They very much taste like cocoa powder which you may have used to make drinking cocoa, but without sugar.
Cacao has been rated the highest antioxidants. Raw cacao is also full of flavanols which increase blood circulation and stimulate brain power.