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
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Theobroma cacao'', a tropical evergreen tree
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Cocoa bean, the seed from the tree used to make chocolate
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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:
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Cocoa butter, a pale, yellow, edible fat; and
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Cocoa solids, the dark, bitter mass that contains most of cacao's notable phytochemicals, including
caffeine and
theobromine.
Places
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Cacao, French Guiana
Cacao is a village in French Guiana, lying on the to the south of Cayenne. Most of the population are Hmong farmers, refugees from Laos who were resettled in French Guiana in 1977. The reasoning was that living, and working conditions were sim ...
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Cacao, Carolina, Puerto Rico
Cacao is a barrio in the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,214.
History
Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became ...
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Cacao, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico
Cacao is a barrio in the municipality of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,663. One of the communities within this barrio is named Cacao Community and in 2010 had a population of 1,001.
History
Puerto Rico was ceded by Sp ...
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Cacao Alto
Cacao Alto is a barrio in the municipality of Patillas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,449.
History
Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and be ...
, Patillas, Puerto Rico
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Cacao Bajo
Cacao Bajo is a barrio in the municipality of Patillas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,437.
History
Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and be ...
, Patillas, Puerto Rico
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Hacienda Cacao
Hacienda Cacao is located off the Carretera Uman-Hopelceh (Uman-Hopelceh highway) within Abalá Municipality, Mexico, and is in the South West Region 8 area of the State of Yucatán. It is one of the properties that arose during the nineteenth ce ...
, Yucatán, Mexico
Other uses
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Maria Cacao, a mountain goddess in the Philippines
See also
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Cacau (disambiguation)
Cacau may refer to:
* Cacau (born 1981), Claudemir Jerônimo Barreto, Brazilian-born German football striker
* ''Cacau'' (novel), by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado
See also
*Cocoa (disambiguation)
* Cacao (disambiguation)
*Cacau Protásio
Ann ...
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Cocoa (disambiguation)
Cocoa may refer to:
Chocolate
* Chocolate
* '' Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree
* Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao''
* Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter ...
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Coca (disambiguation)
Coca may refer to any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae.
Food and drink
* Coca (pastry), a typical Catalan pizza-like dish
* Coca Colla, a Bolivian soft drink that contains extract of the coca leaf
* Coca f ...
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Kakao - a Korean messenger app company named after the cocoa or cacao seed
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