cacao bean
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cacao bean
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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But it was silky and soothing, a balm for a throat scraped raw by jagged shards of cacao bean shells.
From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2015
Sloane also helped popularize the drinking of chocolate, made from the cacao bean, in England.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
It has taken them 2 years to make 574 bars, which are sold in individual wooden boxes filled with cacao bean husks and numbered by harvest.
From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2014
Labels on gourmet chocolate bars often state where the beans came from and how much cacao bean is in the chocolate.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2014
Half of the cacao bean is fat, and the grinding breaks up the cells and liberates the fat, which at blood heat melts to an oil.
From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William
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