The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

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It makes a fruit called cacao beans. Raw beans can be crushed into cacao powder. But if the beans are roasted first, they become cocoa powder. Unroasted cacao powder is more bitter than cocoa powder.

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the cacao is fermented to remove the sticky white pulp around the raw cacao beans. The beans are then dried and roasted, leaving them with bitter cacao nibs ground into a thick paste called ...