Cacao was used by the pre-Columbian populations of the Maya and Aztecs, who venerated it as a sacred food. In Aztec culture, ...

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Learn about the two forms of cocoa powder, when to use Dutch-process cocoa and when to use natural or regular cocoa, and how ...

Cocoa powder, the ground cacao powder that comes after you remove some of the cacao butter from the processed cacao bean, comes in two forms: natural and Dutch-process. Natural cocoa powder is lighter ...

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Cacao is the raw, unprocessed form of the cacao bean, native to Central and South America. It’s the primary ingredient in chocolate, but unlike processed cocoa, cacao retains all its natural nutrients ...

The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), whose beans (cocoa) are used to make products including chocolate, liquor and cocoa butter, may have spread from the Amazon basin to the other regions of South and ...