Yes
No - the cocoa tree grows cocoa pods (the fruit) and inside the cocoa pod you will find cocoa beans.
Seeds are not vegetables, but what we refere to as fruits and vegetables is confusing and misleading in general.
conposition
Cocoa butter is a pure edible vegetable fat extracted from the cacao bean.
Chocolate is derived from the beans of Theobroma Cacao , cocoa or chocolate nut tree. So it is produced from a fruit.
in cacao
Cacao are seeds(beans) inside the fruit of the cacao tree which is a large berry called the cacao pod...
the scientific name for the cocoa tree is Theobroma cacao, meaning drink of the gods. "Theobroma cacao"
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.
cacao beans
'Cacao' is of Spanish origin.
Cacao is a small tropical American evergreen tree.
Theobroma Cacao
Conus cacao was created in 1983.