What is cacao?
Cacao is the fruit from which chocolate is made. Cacao grows on cacao trees found mostly in the tropical regions of Africa and Latin America. The fruit, often referred to as the cacao pod, is about the size of a pineapple and contains dozens of large beans. It is these beans that are used in the production of chocolate products. For more information on Cacao, please refer to the About Chocolate section of this web site.
This is raw “chocolate”. Raw, organic, wild, whole shelled beans, cacao butter and cacao powder now available here. The seed of a fruit of an Amazonian tree that was brought to central America during or before the time of the Olmecs. Cacao beans were so revered by the Mayans and Aztecs that they used them as money!In 1753 Carl con Linnaeus, a Swedish scientist thought that cacao was so important that he named the genus and of this tree himself. He named this tree: Theobroma cacao, which literally means “cacao, the food of the gods.”Cacao benas contain no sugar and between 12 and 50% fat depending on variety and growth conditions. There is no evidence to implicate cacao bean consumption with obesity. Cacao is remarkably rich in sulfur and magnesium. In fact, cacao seems to be the #1 source of magnesium of any food. This is likely the primary reason women crave chocolate during the menstrual period. Magnesium balances brain chemistry, builds strong bones, and is associated with more happ
“Cacao” is the internal code name of the Common Agent Container initially developped at Sun. This name can be found in the source-code in numerous places, in particular in the java package names and in the name of the administrative CLI, however, this is not the name of the open-source project or of any products shipped by Sun. In particular, this project should not be confused with another open-source project by the name of ‘cacaovm’ (http://www.cacaovm.org) which is an open-source Java virtual machine.
