Cacao Beans

Chocolate’s Child Slaves

cacao — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:39:23 +0000

Chocolate’s Child Slaves

This could be a interesting report to see on CNN on Friday Jan 20th.
Chocolate’s Child Slaves premieres Friday 20th January 2012: 8.00pm GMT / 9.00pm CET.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2012/01/05/exp-chocolates-child-slaves.cnn

Chocolate or Chocoholic

cacao — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:07:45 +0000

Chocolate. There are few foods that people feel as passionate about — a passion that goes beyond a love for the “sweetness” of most candies or desserts: after all, few people crave caramel, whipped cream, or bubble gum. Chocolate is, well, different. For the true chocoholic, just thinking about chocolate can evoke a pleasurable response.

Full Article: http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_chocolate/

Maricel Presilla – Culinary Historian & Walking Cacao Encyclopedia

cacao — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:14:45 +0000

A few years ago when Maricel was traveling the world working on her new book “The New Taste of Chocolate: A Cultural & Natural History of Cacao with Recipes” I had the honor of meeting her and showing her around our Cacao processing facility and farms. Maricel is truly one of the worlds Cacao gurus so it was fantastic when Chef Presilla stated that our fermented cacao beans were of exceptional quality and some of the best in the world.
The new edition of Maricel’s book is now available by using the following Amazon advertizement

Child safe site on Chocolate

cacao — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:05:49 +0000

Basics of Cacao and how it is processed into Chocolate.

http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=44

Chemical composition of cocoa

cacao — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:15:35 +0000

Family: Sterculiaceae

Genus: Theobroma

Species: cacao

Common Names: Chocolate, cacao, kakao, criollo, cacaoyer, cocoa, forestero

Acetic-acid, aesculetin, alanine, alkaloids, alpha-sitosterol, alpha-theosterol, amyl-acetate, amyl-alcohol, amyl-butyrate, amylase, apigenin-7-o-glucoside, arabinose, arachidic-acid, arginine, ascorbic-acid, ascorbic-acid-oxidase, aspariginase, beta-carotene, beta-sitosterol, beta-theosterol, biotin, caffeic-acid, caffeine, calcium, campesterol, catalase, catechins, catechol, cellulase, cellulose, chlorogenic-acid, chrysoeriol-7-o-glucoside, citric-acid, coumarin, cyanidin, cyanidin-3-beta-l-arabinoside, cyanidin-3-galactoside, cyanidin-glycoside, cycloartanol, d-galactose, decarboxylase, dextrinase, diacetyl, dopamine, epigallocatechin, ergosterol, ferulic-acid, formic-acid, fructose, furfurol, galacturonic-acid, gallocatechin, gentisic-acid, glucose, glutamic-acid, glycerin, glycerophosphatase, glycine, glycolic-acid, glycosidase, haematin, histidine, i-butyric-acid, idaein, invertase, isobutylacetate, isoleucine, isopropyl-acetate, isovitexin, kaempferol, l-epicatechin, leucine, leucocyanidins, linalool, linoleic-acid, lipase, luteolin, luteolin-7-o-glucoside, lysine, lysophosphatidyl-choline, maleic-acid, mannan, manninotriose, mannose, melibiose, mesoinositol, methylheptenone, n-butylacetate, n-nonacosane, niacin, nicotinamide, nicotinic- acid, nitrogen, nonanoic-acid, o-hydroxyphenylacetic-acid, octoic-acid, oleic- acid, oleo-dipalmatin, oleopalmitostearin, oxalic-acid, p-anisic-acid, p-coumaric-acid, p-coumarylquinic-acid, p-hydroxybenzoic-acid, p-hydroxyphenylacetic-acid, palmitic-acid, palmitodiolen, pantothenic-acid, pectin, pentose, peroxidase, phenylacetic-acid, phenylalanine, phlobaphene, phosphatidyl-choline, phosphatidyl- ethanolamine, phosphatidyl-inositol, phospholipids, phosphorus, phytase, planteose, polygalacturonate, polyphenol-oxidase, polyphenols, proline, propionic-acid, propyl-acetate, protocatechuic-acid, purine, pyridoxine, quercetin, quercetin-3-o-galactoside, quercetin-3-o-glucoside, quercitrin, raffinase, raffinose, reductase, rhamnose, riboflavin, rutin, rutoside, saccharose, salsolinol, serine, sinapic-acid, stachyose, stearic-acid, stearodiolein, stigmasterol, sucrose, syringic-acid, tannins, tartaric-acid, theobromine, theophylline, thiamin, threonine, trigonelline, tyramine, tyrosine, valerianic-acid, valine, vanillic-acid, verbascose, verbascotetrose, vitexin