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Our first “job” was to plant raw cacao beans in small bags filled with rich soil, covering them with wood ash to discourage pests and provide fertilizer. We then placed these bags in the ...

It makes a fruit called cacao beans. Raw beans can be crushed into cacao powder. But if the beans are roasted first, they become cocoa powder. Unroasted cacao powder is more bitter than cocoa powder.

The outlook for 2025 may be more of the same, with weather typically the key driving factor for raw commodities, ongoing HPAI outbreaks a factor in eggs and minor relief from cocoa bean production ...

"Cocoa fermentation is a critical process in the production of chocolate, transforming raw cocoa beans into a form suitable for chocolate making," says Sarin Partrick, chief executive of India Cocoa.

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Where Does Raw Cacao Come From? Raw cacao comes from the beans of the Theobroma cacao tree. The beans, technically seeds, grow within pods in the Baba part of the plant. The Baba is a fleshy white ...