The pods are cut off the trunk, opened, and the beans are removed to be dried, roasted, and ground into chocolate.
Cocoa beans are only produced by the cocoa tree.
Cocoa beans are not considered a tree nut. However they do come from trees. The actual tree nut is the Cacao tree nut which contains the actual cocoa beans.
The Cocoa Tree! The fruits of the cocoa tree are oval-shaped pods, 8 to 14 inches long, ranging in colour from yellow or green to red or violet and containing the cocoa beans. See www.cocoatree.org
Beans from a cocoa tree
Cocoa beans come from the cocoa tree. The tree has large yellow or orange fruits with a shape similar to papaya or butternut squash. Inside the fruit is the seeds, the cocoa beans. The beans are extracted and dried before they are roasted in a similar manner as coffee beans.
You can't simply make cocoa beans. They are plants that from from a cocoa bean tree. You can however make different things from cocoa beans such as chocolate.
The word cocoa is an English variant of cacao, the name for the cocoa tree and the beans from it.
That would be the cocoa tree.
it makes cocoa pods which are then broken open to get the cocoa beans inside then they are taken to a factory to make chocolate
That would be the cocoa bean tree.
Cocoa beans and Theobroma cacao tree
Cocoa beans grow in pods that grow from the trunk and branches of the cocoa tree.