Cacao is the seed from which cocoa and chocolate are made, from Spanish cacao, an adaptation of Nahuatl cacaua, the root form of cacahuatl ("bean of the cocoa-tree"). It may also refer to:

Plants

*'' Theobroma cacao'', a tropical evergreen tree ** Cocoa bean, the seed from the tree used to make chocolate **

Cacao paste Chocolate liquor (cocoa liquor) is pure cocoa mass (cocoa paste) in solid or semi-solid form. Like the cocoa beans (nibs) from which it is produced, it contains both cocoa solids and cocoa butter in roughly equal proportion. It is produced fr ...

, ground cacao beans. The mass is melted and separated into: *** Cocoa butter, a pale, yellow, edible fat; and *** Cocoa solids, the dark, bitter mass that contains most of cacao's notable phytochemicals, including caffeine and theobromine.

Places

* Cacao, French Guiana * Cacao, Carolina, Puerto Rico * Cacao, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico * Cacao Alto, Patillas, Puerto Rico * Cacao Bajo, Patillas, Puerto Rico * Hacienda Cacao, Yucatán, Mexico

Other uses

* Maria Cacao, a mountain goddess in the Philippines

Plants

Places

Other uses

See also