name: Cocoa Bean
flavor_db_name_variants: cocoa bean
source: foodb
status: draft
food_db_id: Cocoa bean
id: 182
name_scientific: Theobroma cacao
description: Cocoa bean (also cacao bean, often simply cocoa and cacao; Mayan: kakaw; Nahuatl: cacaua) is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and cocoa butter are extracted. They are the basis of chocolate, as well as many Mesoamerican foods such as mole sauce and tejate. [Wikipedia]
itis_id: 505487
wikipedia_id: Cocoa_bean
picture_file_name: 182.jpg
picture_content_type: image/jpeg
picture_file_size: 209385
picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:39:56.000Z
legacy_id: 193
food_group: Cocoa and cocoa products
food_subgroup: Cocoa
food_type: Type 1
created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:24.000Z
updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:18.000Z
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updater_id: 2
export_to_afcdb: false
category: specific
ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3641
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00182