The white flesh and pulp surrounding the cacao beans can be eaten raw and has a fruity, tangy flavor. The seeds, on the other hand, are not sweet at all, but rather quite rich and bitter.

Crack it open, and you'll find seeds covered in edible white pulp. The seeds are actually cocoa beans and used as a main ingredient for chocolate. Cacao is native to the tropical regions of the ...

The beans are then removed from the pods with their surrounding pulp. Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

It is sold as bars or in chips or disks. "If you've ever tasted a cocoa bean or cocoa bean pulp, it kind of encompasses what that is," says Lazo. "It's very smooth, creamy, it's acidic ...

The pod’s dense and waxy exterior gives way to seeds coated in white pulp – sweet ... in the form of chocolate bars, dried beans and tea at Lavaloha Chocolate Farm in Hilo. “Bringing the Hawaiian ...