The cocoa bean, also cacao bean or simply cocoa or cacao. The dried and fully fermented fatty seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and cocoa butter are extracted. Cocoa is the raw ingredient of Chocolate and Chocolate Flavour.
Cocoa powder, an unsweetened chocolate product, adds deep chocolate flavor to desserts and beverages. Cocoa powder occurs when the fat, called cocoa butter, gets removed from the cacao beans during processing. The leftover dried solids get ground into the product sold as cocoa powder.
Pure ground cocoa powder has a pH level between 5.3 and 5.8, putting it on the acidic end of the scale. The natural cocoa powder produced with the Broma process retains the natural pH level.
It tends to be more intensely flavored, and a lighter, almost reddish-brown color.
The Dutch process (sometimes called "Dutching") bathes the cocoa beans in an alkaline solution, producing a darker brown cocoa powder with a chemically neutral pH of between 6.8 and 8.1, resulting in a more mellow flavor. Dutching also reduces the antioxidant properties of cocoa.
We can supply pure or alkalized cocoa powder from our affiliated factories around the world.
MOQ: 10 MT
Supplied from India, Indonesia, Vietnam, South America and Africa.
Theobroma cacao, also called the cacao tree and the cocoa tree, is a small evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae, native to the deep tropical regions of Mesoamerica. Its seeds, cocoa beans, are used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate.
