People all over the country do this, not just in Guayaquil. This is part of the chocolate making process. When the cacao pod is opened all the inner seed are covered in sweet jelly like stuff. This is usually sucked off because of it's sweet taste. Or in more sanitary instances rinsed off. Then the cocoa beans are left to dry. After they are dried they are ground into cocoa powder. Although most Ecuadorians sell the beans whole to be processed elsewhere.
they traded with cacao beans because they needed money to trade with so they decided to use cacao beans as there money they needed something to trade with so they used cacao beans they also used cacao beans to make chocolate they ate cacao beans to.
who introduced the cacao beans to the Aztecs
Cacao Beans mostly come from Brazil.
No, cocoa is cacao beans
cacao butter
cacao beans
Theobroma Cacao
No, cocoa is cacao beans
Cacao are seeds(beans) inside the fruit of the cacao tree which is a large berry called the cacao pod...
cacao butter
Cocoa (AKA cacao or cocao) beans are poisonous so no animals eat them. Monkeys est cacao beans, but just the fruit not the beans.
no