Cocoa may refer to:

Chocolate

Chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods. Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocesse ...

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Theobroma cacao ''Theobroma cacao'' (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small ( tall) evergreen tree in the Malvaceae family. Its seedscocoa beansare used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate. Although the tree is native to the tropi ...

'', the cocoa tree *

Cocoa bean The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa () or cacao (), is the dried and fully fermented seed of ''Theobroma cacao'', the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted. Cacao tree ...

, seed of ''Theobroma cacao'' *

Chocolate liquor Chocolate liquor, also called cocoa liquor, paste or mass, is pure cocoa in liquid or semi-solid form. It is produced from cocoa bean nibs that have been fermented, dried, roasted, and separated from their skins. The nibs are ground to the point ...

, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter and cocoa solids *

Cocoa butter Cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil, is a pale-yellow, edible Vegetable oil, fat extracted from the cocoa bean (''Theobroma cacao''). It is used to make chocolate, as well as some ointments, toiletries, and pharmaceuticals. Cocoa butter h ...

, a pale yellow, edible fat extracted from the cocoa bean *

Cocoa solids Dry cocoa solids are the components of cocoa beans remaining after cocoa butter, the fatty component of the bean, is extracted from chocolate liquor, roasted cocoa beans that have been ground into a liquid state. Cocoa butter is 46% to 57% of th ...

or cocoa powder *

Hot chocolate Hot Chocolate are a British soul band formed by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson. The group had at least one hit song every year on the UK Singles Chart from 1970 to 1984. Their hits include " You Sexy Thing", a UK number two which also made ...

, also called hot cocoa or simply cocoa * Cocoa Mountain, a gourmet chocolate enterprise in Durness in the North West Highlands of Scotland * Cocoa Processing Company, a Ghanaian company

Computing

Cocoa (API) Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for its desktop operating system macOS. Cocoa consists of the Foundation Kit, Application Kit, and Core Data frameworks, as included by the Cocoa.h header file, ...

, an API and programming environment for macOS *

Cocoa Touch UIKit is an application development environment and graphical user interface toolkit from Apple Inc. used to build apps for the iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS operating systems. UIKit provides an abstraction layer of iOS, the ...

, an API and programming environment for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS * CoCoA, a computer algebra system * COCOA (digital humanities), an early FORTRAN program for generating concordances and word counts from natural language texts * Stagecast Creator, formerly Cocoa, a language developed by Apple to teach programming to children

People

Cocoa Brown Farah "Cocoa" Brown (born October 9, 1974) is an American actress, writer and comedian. She is best known for playing Jennifer in '' For Better or Worse'' and Lytia in '' The Single Moms Club''. Early life, education Brown was born as Farah Bro ...

(born 1972), American actress and writer * Cocoa Chanelle (born 1971), American DJ and musician *

Cocoa Fujiwara was a Japanese manga artist and illustrator from Fukuoka Prefecture. Her debut was with a work called ''Calling'', which she made when she was fifteen. She chose not to go to high school so that she could draw manga. Fujiwara was a fan of RPGs ...

(1983–2015), Japanese manga artist and illustrator *

Cocoa Samoa Ulualoaiga Onosai Tuaolo Emelio (March 9, 1945 – January 9, 2007) was an American Samoan professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Cocoa Samoa. Professional wrestling career He began his training by studying martial arts in Japan ...

(1945–2007), American-Samoan professional wrestler *

Cocoa Tea Colvin George Scott (3 September 1959 – 11 March 2025), better known as Cocoa Tea, was a Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter. Life and career Born in the fishing village of Rocky Point, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica on 3 September 1959, Cocoa ...

(born 1959), Jamaican singer and songwriter

Other uses

Cocoa, Florida Cocoa is a city in Brevard County, Florida. Its population was 19,041 at the 2020 United States census, up from 17,140 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Palm Bay, Florida, Palm Bay–Melbourne, Florida, Melbourne–Titusville, Flori ...

, a city in the US *

Cocoa Beach, Florida Cocoa Beach is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The population was 11,354 at the 2020 United States census, up from 11,231 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Palm Bay, Florida, Palm Bay–Melbourne, Florida, Melbourne–T ...

, a neighboring town *

Cocoa brown Farah "Cocoa" Brown (born October 9, 1974) is an American actress, writer and comedian. She is best known for playing Jennifer in '' For Better or Worse'' and Lytia in '' The Single Moms Club''. Early life, education Brown was born as Farah Bro ...

, a version of the color chocolate *

Cocoa Crater Cocoa Crater, sometimes called Cocoa Cone, is a cinder cone in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It has an elevation of and is one of several volcanic cones in the Snowshoe Lava Field at the southern end of the ...

, a volcanic cone in British Columbia, Canada * Cocoa (''Is the Order a Rabbit?''), a character in the manga series ''Is the Order a Rabbit?'' *

COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application (COCOA) is a COVID-19 application for smartphones provided by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan. The application uses Bluetooth to detect and record suspected close contacts between users. ...

, often abbreviated as COCOA, Japanese COVID-19 contact tracing app

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