Chocolate
By and by:
Meena Mohan,akaMeenakshi ,aka,Miley Howards
Cocoa powder is made from roasted and ground cacao beans, which are the seeds of the fruit of the cacao tree. The beans are fermented, dried, roasted, and then processed to extract the fat (cocoa butter), leaving behind the cocoa solids, which are then ground into a fine powder.
They cut down the tree of cacao. The cacao is beans that have chocolate inside it. That's how the Aztecs made chocolate.
Cacao Beans
The Aztec's used the cacao beans for money. With that, they would trade with the merchants for other goods.
Cacao beans are collected from cacao pods, which grow on the cacao tree. Harvesters use machetes to cut the ripe pods from the tree, typically during the harvesting season. Once the pods are collected, they are opened to extract the cacao beans, which are then fermented and dried to develop their flavor before being processed further. This labor-intensive process is crucial for producing high-quality chocolate.
Theobroma cacao is the scientific name for the cacao tree, which produces cocoa beans used to make chocolate. The seeds of the cacao fruit are fermented, dried, roasted, and processed to make various chocolate products.
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' is of Spanish origin.
Cacao beans are dried and fermented to make cocoa powder. Cocoa powder can then be used to make cakes, frosting, chocolate pudding and ice cream. It can even be added to casseroles and soups.
The Aztec king drink cacao because they think it is very high class and powerful.
They are what is needed to be ground and harvested into cocoa powder, which is later turned into chocolate.