Linguistically, the cacao and cocoa are entirely interchangeable. But due to the more botanical connection of 'cacao,' it has a much more healthy and natural connotation. 'Cocoa,' on the other hand, thanks to its historical usage in Africa and Asia, where mostly low-quality cacao is grown,...
Every year, people all over the world eat or drink 2 BILLION (1000000000) pounds of chocolate every year. So…if every cocoa tree produces enough beans to make only 2 pounds of chocolate a year, 1 BILLION cocoa trees are needed every year to keep the world supplied in chocolate. THE FIR...
Even as an avid chocolate lover, if you were to open up a fresh cacao pod, the chances are you wouldn't recognize the smell, or even the flavor. The cacao beans have a white pulp surrounding them that's said to have a floral, fruity flavor that is far removed from what we consider...
This new theory was sparked by archaeologist Professor Michael Blake, as he investigated a site in modern day Ecuador. After discovering a substance that he suspected may be cacao on some pottery, it was analyzed and found to contain traces of theobromine, which strongly suggested the presence of...
How to Make Chocolate From Scratch: Chocolate is a food that is simultaneously ubiquitous and mysterious. Chocolate is everywhere - in cakes, in candies, in beverages. Yet few people really know how chocolate is made. Even fewer have actually set their e
Cocoa bean fresh from the pod. There are perhaps two dozen cocoa beans in each pod. A variety of cocoa pods The pods grow on cocoa trees (taxonomic name:Theobroma cacao) which are relatively small — about the size of a typical apple tree. ...
Nobody knows when the first person looked at the cacao tree and decided to eat its seeds. The earliest record of chocolate comes from Mesoamerica, a region that stretches from central Mexico south through Costa Rica. The Mayans were drinking it by about 600 C.E., with the Aztecs joining ...
Nobody knows when the first person looked at the cacao tree and decided to eat its seeds. The earliest record of chocolate comes from Mesoamerica, a region that stretches from central Mexico south through Costa Rica. The Mayans were drinking it by about 600 C.E., with the Aztecs joining ...
These days, a lot have you have been asking me, “Can I eat fats while I’mfastingin the morning?!” Sure! When you add fats to your fasting window, it’s technically aketogenic fastor “Fat-Fasting.” The short-chain fats and medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) found in grass-fed but...
Turning cacao into chocolate Kaiskynet Studio/Shutterstock Even as an avid chocolate lover, if you were to open up a fresh cacao pod, the chances are you wouldn't recognize the smell, or even the flavor. The cacao beans have a white pulp surrounding them that's said to have a floral,...