On: How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)

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Cacao are OK to suck on (to get the pulp around the seeds), but the seeds themselves taste utterly vile.

[foobarian → markdown]

I imagine it's not too different from eating a spoonful of raw cocoa powder

[simtel20 → foobarian]

Cacao powder has been dried and fermented at least, and usually it's roasted too. There is something else done in dutch processed powder. It's probably a very different flavor. I've never thought to eat the seeds raw, but now I will try them at some point.

[foobarian → simtel20]

Agree, this is now on my short list too :-)

[picklesman → markdown]

I disagree. After drying for a few days they just taste like unsweetened chocolate to me. Very similar to the cacao nibs I used to purchase, which are indeed just broken up seeds.

[simtel20 → picklesman]

After a few days they have been dried and fermented, though.

[rusticpenn → markdown]

Most seeds dont taste good unless they are processed right?