Cacao in a sentence

A sweet harvest: The Tokyo Cacao team holds up cacao pods from its farm on Hahajima island.

In the cacao bean divisions, Ken Melrose of Primavera Farm bested 13 other entries for the Best Cacao Bean while Kealia Ranch earned Best Criollo Bean.

As cacao is the only known commodity from Mesoamerica containing both of these alkaloid compounds, it seems likely these vessels were used as containers for cacao drinks.

Raw chocolate, often referred to as raw cacao, is always dark and a minimum of 75% cacao.

The Nahuatl-derived Spanish word cacao entered scientific nomenclature in 1753 after the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus published his taxonomic binomial system and coined the genus and species Theobroma cacao.

Chief among its additions is Gin Ichimaru (Cacao Society Version)the ever-smiling Gin a purple tight-fitting garb and replacing his wakizashi Zanpakuto Shinso with a pair of daggers.

Consumer Reports tests, as well as testing done by other organizations, suggest cadmium levels tend to increase with the percentage of cacao.

Earlier this month, mine included dishes like Baltic herring with spruce and rye, and beetroot with fermented carrot and cacao beans.

However, although it was becoming obvious that the problem did not affect the whole of the cacao growing region in Latin America, it was not clear which regions were the worst affected or what the cause was.

I learned that the Minute Maid orange juice comes from Brazil or Costa Rica, their cottage cheese from Utah, and the cacao in chocolate milk is from the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ecuador or the Dominican Republic.

In a report, the Philippine Statistics Authority said the output of coconut, coffee, tobacco and cacao increased during the reference period while that of abaca, rubber and sugarcane declined.

In a sold-out evening, the annual Kidpower Chocoholic Frolic was a delight, combining support for a program “teaching kids to be safe” with a gourmet tasting of rare cacao.

Le Conseil du Cafe-Cacao, Cote d’Ivore’s cocoa regulator, has announced the farm-gate prices for the commodity for the 2023-24 season.

Some coffee alternatives only contain natural caffeine from green tea and cacao, for example.

The beans included green and yellow mongo, kadios, red beans, winged beans, cacao, string beans, and “patane” (lima or pop beans) from Aklan, Antique, Iloilo and Capiz.

There is also great potential to expand the North American market for Haitian agricultural products, including coffee and cacao beans.

This culminated in a study published in Science of the Total Environment, which synthesized data from over 2,000 samples across Peru, making it the largest study to date of cadmium and cacao.

This strong scent boasts a mix of Tobacco Leaf and Spice that complement undertones of Vanilla, Cacao, Tonka Bean and Tobacco Blossom for a long-lasting, woody aroma.

With the biggest market being the EU, these limits put an additional worry on the cacao value chain with possible implications not only for sellers, but also on the livelihoods of farmers.

At the 2024 Clean + Conscious Awards, Deva were awarded silver in the best chocolate category for their twin pack of organic medjool dates coated in raw dark cacao.