Showing Food Cocoa bean
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| Name | Cocoa bean | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Theobroma cacao | ||||||||||
| Description | Cocoa bean (also cacao bean, often simply cocoa and cacao; Mayan: kakaw; Nahuatl: cacaua) is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and cocoa butter are extracted. They are the basis of chocolate, as well as many Mesoamerican foods such as mole sauce and tejate. [Wikipedia] | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00182 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Cocoa and cocoa products | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Cocoa | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 505487 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Cocoa_bean | ||||||||||
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| Content Reference | — Duke, James. 'Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United States Department of Agriculture.' Agricultural Research Service, Accessed April 27 (2004). — Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181. — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. | ||||||||||