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

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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

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public_id: FOOD00182