There are many ways that cocoa nibs can be eaten. Examples include: being thrown into your very own homemade trail mix, in cakes and puddings and in cookies.

Cacao nibs are shelled & roasted cacao beans. They have a crunchy texture with a chocolate-y flavour.

To make chocolate from cocoa nibs you need to grind the nibs up then add them to cocoa butter, sugar and nonfat milk powder. The next step is to put all the ingredients in a powerful wet grinder after melting it. When left to cool you have homemade chocolate.

Yes. During chocolate making, the fibrous husk that surrounds each bean is removed through a process of breaking the bean into pieces, separating the husk from the bean, and then winnowing away the lighter husk from the heavier nibs by use of vacuums or high-pressure fans. The pieces of bean created during winnowing are called cocoa nibs. (The nibs are often ground up before being used to make chocolate, the result being called cocoa mass or cocoa liquor.) It is the nibs that contain the caffeine found in chocolate. The more nibs (or cocoa mass/cocoa liquor) used to make a piece of chocolate, the more caffeine it will contain.

Finely ground cocoa beans (nibs). It contains both cocoa solids and cocoa butter (it hasn't been separated yet). Also known as "cocoa mass" and more commonly, "chocolate liquor".