Hello, guis! This is Mel Rose and Welcome back to my RU-vid Channel! 🤭🫣 For today’s video is about a CACAO TREE. 🤙🏼
Disclaimer: The CACAO TREE in my video is planted by aour neighbor in a side alley of the road in a vacant house and lot. 🫶🏻😂
Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small tree grows upto 6-12 meters tall a evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae. Its seeds, cocoa beans, are used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate. Its native to the tropics of the Americas. Its leaves are alternate, entire, unlobed, 10-50 cm in long and 5-10 cm in broad.
The flowers are produced in clusters directly on the trunk and older branches. The flowers known as cauliflory. The cacao flowers are pollinated by tiny flies, Forcipomyia biting midges. The fruit, called a cacao pod, is ovoid, 15-30 cm long and 8-10 cm wide. When its ripe, its turns to yellow to orange, and weighs about 500 grams when ripe. The pod contains 20 to 60 seeds, usually called "beans", embedded in a white pulp.
The seeds are the main ingredient of chocolate, while the pulp is used in some countries to prepare refreshing juice, smoothies, jelly, and cream. In the 21st century, the fermented pulp is distilled into an alcoholic beverage. Each seed contains a significant amount of fat (40-50%) as cocoa butter.
The fruit's active constituent is the stimulant theobromine, a compound similar to caffeine.
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Music: Golden Days
Musician: Philip E Morris
16 окт 2024
