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Cocoa Bean

cocoa beans in their pod

Before sowing, should be removed from the beans of their mucilaginous pulp

Cocoa beans are the seeds of the cacao tree , used for the manufacture of chocolate. They are extracted from the berries , which are opened to harvesting and we put out to dry.

The pod contains 16 to 60 seeds . It is wrapped in a coat of pink or pale red.

Cocoa beans contain about 50% fat called cocoa butter , 5% water, 7% of starch , 4% cellulose, 2% of theobromine , 20% other proteins and 6% minerals ^,^References

^{a , b , c , d and e} Braudeau, P. 24-45
Braudeau, P. 26
Gunstone, P. 57
Ripley, P. 789

Bibliography

(En) Jean Braudeau, cocoa. Paris: GP Maisonneuve et Larose, 1969. ( OCLC 4816064 )
(In) FD Gunstone, The Lipid Handbook, CRC Press, 1994. ( ISBN 9780412433207 )
(In) George Ripley and Charles A. Dana, The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. New York Appleton, 1873. ( OCLC 2679916 )