Chocolate Beans 1 Kilo Bag

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At these mills, the cocoa can be mixed with a variety of ingredients such as cinnamon, chili peppers, almonds, vanilla, and other spices to create drinking chocolate. The farmer removes the beans from the pods, packs them into boxes or heap them into piles, then covers them with mats or banana leaves for three to seven days. I bought these expecting them to be like Smarties - they have a lot thicker of a sugar coating, which makes them quite hard/crunchy.

When grown, harvested and fermented with craft and care, its flavours reveal the delicious secrets held by its distinct origins. The Nahuatl word, in turn, ultimately derives from the reconstructed Proto-Mixe–Zoquean word kakawa. Bean-to-bar Chocolate: America's Craft Chocolate Revolution : the Origins, the Makers, and the Mind-blowing Flavors.During harvest, the pods are opened, the seeds are kept, and the empty pods are discarded and the pulp made into juice. They are the basis of chocolate and Mesoamerican foods including tejate, an indigenous Mexican drink. The liquor is processed into chocolate by adding cocoa butter, sugar, and sometimes vanilla and lecithin. Roasted nibs (pieces of kernels) are generally powdered and melted into chocolate liquor, but also inserted into chocolate bars to give additional "crunch". In late 2000, a BBC documentary reported the use of enslaved children in the production of cocoa in West Africa.

Chemical analysis of residue extracted from pottery excavated at an archaeological site at Puerto Escondido, in Honduras, indicates that cocoa products were first consumed there sometime between 1500 and 1400 BC. Don't forget to choose one of our colourful, professionally printed labels included with both small and large gift jars.Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Skimmed Milk, Cocoa Mass, Dried Whey ( Milk), Lactose ( Milk), Tapioca Starch, Butter Oil ( Milk),?