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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.
Cocoa beans within a pod. Theobroma cacao is a small tree grown within 20° north and 20° south of the equator. Its fruits, cocoa pods, grow along its trunk and thicker branches, [1] which when ripe are cut down with knives and machetes. These pods are cut or cracked open using knives or clubs, revealing 30–45 oval beans (the seed of the ...
Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small (6–12 m (20–39 ft) tall) evergreen tree in the Malvaceae family. [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 ...
For the most part, plantations in Costa Rica are monocultures. These plantations (e.g. Dole , Del Monte , Chiquita ) primarily grow bananas, pineapples, sugar, coffee, and ornamental plants. Many crops cultivated through plantation farming are usually genetically modified to improve and hasten growth and increase resistance to pests and diseases.
The Bribri people live in the mountains and islands of southern Costa Rica and northern Panama both on reservations and non-protected areas. Cacao tree and ceremonial house, Yorkin indigenous community, Talamanca, Costa Rica. The Bribri social structure is organized in clans. Each clan is composed of an extended family.
Costa Rica (UK: / ˌ k ɒ s t ə ˈ r ... [39] and by the 1820s, it surpassed tobacco, sugar, and cacao as a primary export. ... A coffee plantation in the Orosí Valley.
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".
Pet shampoo with VCO and mother of cocoa. G. sepium is widely used in the form of poles for live fencing in Cuba, [15] other islands and India. This is one of the best plants used for traditional live fencing to protect agriculture and fruit bearing plantations from animals such as goats, cow, and buffalo.