Have you ever seen cocoa pods? This photo that one of my sisters sent me shows the cocoa beans inside the pods, which will be dried and processed to ultimately make chocolate.
Most delicious - super exciting to see and to take a photo of them in real life - thank you for sharing ! So sad that they unfortunately add so much sugar and fat and other things to chocolate in the end to make us fat and addicted - I mostly use organic raw cacoa nibs and de-oiled cacoa powder since I got vegan. I am a chocolate junkie but found out that it is just because cacao has so much minerals in it ( it's a superfood) that I need- I add the powder or nibs to mashed fruits now and don't eat any commercial chocolate . I don't have any "Nutella attacks" any more since I do this- I had Nutella attacks peridically in the past and ate up half a glass sometimes ... but that went directly to my hips!I love cacoa now and not Nutella!
When we lived up North, the Hersey Factory was a few miles away and we toured it several times before they sent it to Mexico because it was cheaper. Not very nice to the dairy owners who supplied all the milk!! But we saw the pod on tour. And vats the size of a room filled with melted chocolate.
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Yes, they even started growing cocoa in Hawaii. You have to add a lot of sugar to make it into something I would like.
Hi Christine no I have never seen them before ,thankyou for showing me xx
Thanks for sharing! Valerie
Cool! I've led a sheltered life!
Ah, chocolate!
Fascinating...and delicious:)
That photo looks interesting. Never saw cocoa pods before.
I've actually never seen them. That is cool!
No, I've never seen them before, interesting.
No I haven't.
They are so chocolate looking...yummmmmm!
Very neat, I've never seen that!
It is always interesting to see photos. Please thank your sister for sending it for you to share, and thanks for sharing Christine.
Most delicious - super exciting to see and to take a photo of them in real life - thank you for sharing ! So sad that they unfortunately add so much sugar and fat and other things to chocolate in the end to make us fat and addicted - I mostly use organic raw cacoa nibs and de-oiled cacoa powder since I got vegan. I am a chocolate junkie but found out that it is just because cacao has so much minerals in it ( it's a superfood) that I need-
I add the powder or nibs to mashed fruits now and don't eat any commercial chocolate . I don't have any "Nutella attacks" any more since I do this- I had Nutella attacks peridically in the past and ate up half a glass sometimes ... but that went directly to my hips!I love cacoa now and not Nutella!
Hugs, Susi
Adding the nibs to fruit, interesting Susi!
Yes, I have seen that before. In my school days , a teacher bring to school for one of our class
First I've seen those.
I have never seen that before. Cool.
When we lived up North, the Hersey Factory was a few miles away and we toured it several times before they sent it to Mexico because it was cheaper. Not very nice to the dairy owners who supplied all the milk!! But we saw the pod on tour. And vats the size of a room filled with melted chocolate.
you can make your own if you have a few of those :)
how interesting!
glad she shared this with you
never saw them before
Thanks for sharing this photograph.
I enjoy a square of dark chocolate occasionally.
All the best Jan
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