And this process uses just one ingredient: Raw cacao. The chocolate making process starts with the cacao pods. The beans are pulled from the pods and are lightly fermented and dried. Inside the ...

If you can find cacao pods at your nearest specialty grocery store ... Cacao Fruit Besides eating this white and slippery ...

Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS Cacao is made from the beans of the Theobroma cacao evergreen tree. The tree belongs to the Malvaceae family, and the beans can be used to make edible products, ...

She spent many hours helping my grandparents tend to the trees and harvest the cocoa pods - the raw ingredient that is eventually processed into the chocolate so many of us enjoy. The more I heard ...

Once removed from their pods, beans go through a fermentation ... process in the production of chocolate, transforming raw cocoa beans into a form suitable for chocolate making," says Sarin ...