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  2. History of chocolate - Wikipedia

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    Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604, [1] and in Spanish in 1579. [2] However, the word's origins beyond this are contentious. [3] Despite a popular belief that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl, early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning "cacao water".

  3. Theobroma cacao - Wikipedia

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    Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small (6–12 m (20–39 ft) tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae. [1] [3] Its seeds - cocoa beans - are used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate. [4] Although the tree is native to the tropics of the Americas, the largest producer of cocoa beans in 2022 was ...

  4. Cocoa bean - Wikipedia

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    The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa (/ ˈ k oʊ. k oʊ /) or cacao (/ k ə ˈ k aʊ /), [1] is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cacao trees are native to the Amazon rainforest.

  5. Types of cocoa beans - Wikipedia

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    The three traditional varieties: Forastero, Trinitario, and Criollo. Cocoa beans are traditionally classified into three main varieties: Forastero, Criollo and Trinitario.. Use of these terms has changed across different contexts and times, and recent genetic research has found that the categories of Forastero and Triniario are better understood as geohistorical inventions rather than as ...

  6. Chocolate - Wikipedia

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    Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring in other foods. The cacao tree has been used as a source of food for at least 5,300 years, starting with the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in what is present-day Ecuador.

  7. Hot chocolate - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 December 2024. Heated beverage of chocolate in milk or water For other uses, see Hot chocolate (disambiguation). Hot chocolate A cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows. Region of origin Mesoamerica Color Brown or chestnut Flavor Chocolate Ingredients Chocolate or cocoa powder, milk or water, sugar ...

  8. Gliricidia sepium - Wikipedia

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    Gliricidia sepium, often simply referred to as gliricidia or by its Spanish common name madre de cacao (also anglicized as mother of cocoa), [2] is a medium size leguminous tree belonging to the family Fabaceae.

  9. Cacao - Wikipedia

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    Cocoa bean, the seed from the tree used to make chocolate; Cacao paste, ground cacao beans. The mass is melted and separated into: Cocoa butter, a pale, yellow, edible fat; and; Cocoa solids, the dark, bitter mass that contains most of cacao's notable phytochemicals, including caffeine and theobromine.