Nutritional Difference Between Roasted & Raw Cacao Beans
September 13th, 2011
Overview
Cacao in the wild
The origin of chocolate is derived from the cacao bean (pronounced “kuh-KOW”), which quite simply are the seeds of the cacao fruit. According to “Chocolate: History, Culture and Heritage,” the use of cacao by humans is well beyond 5,000 years old and was eaten by the Native Americans, Aztecs, Olmecs and Mayans. Once symbolic of great wealth, the Mayans were the first civilization to use cacao beans as a source of currency; however, it was the Europeans who first combined cacao with refined sugars.
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