Based on his warped ethno-tribal electioneering-campaign logic in the recent past, one would have expected former President ...

"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.

Raw cacao is chocolate in a nearly pure and natural form. When the unroasted cacao beans are cold-pressed, the enzymes are not altered as they are in other types of chocolate. At the same time ...

Production process: To make cacao nibs, producers remove the beans from the pods ... Nib varieties: They are sold in roasted, ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao.