Cacao is the seed from which cocoa and chocolate are made, from Spanish cacao, an adaptation of Nahuatl cacaua, the root form of cacahuatl ("bean of the cocoa-tree"). It may also refer to:
Plants edit
- Theobroma cacao, a tropical evergreen tree
- Cocoa bean, the seed from the tree used to make chocolate
- Cacao paste, ground cacao beans. The mass is melted and separated into:
- Cocoa butter, a pale, yellow, edible fat; and
- Cocoa solids, the dark, bitter mass that contains most of cacao's notable phytochemicals, including caffeine and theobromine.
Places edit
- Cacao, French Guiana
- Cacao, Carolina, Puerto Rico
- Cacao, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico
- Cacao Alto, Patillas, Puerto Rico
- Cacao Bajo, Patillas, Puerto Rico
- Hacienda Cacao, Yucatán, Mexico, tropical rainforest
Other uses edit
- Maria Cacao, a mountain goddess in the Philippines
See also edit
- Cacau (disambiguation)
- Cocoa (disambiguation)
- Coca (disambiguation)
- Kakao - a Korean messenger app company named after the cocoa or cacao seed
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