The cocoa bean, an aa cacao bean[1] or simply cocoa or cacao, is the dried an fully fermented fatty seed o Theobroma cacao, frae which cocoa solits an cocoa butter can be extractit.[2]

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  1. "Cacao". Free Dictionary. Retrieved 17 Februar 2015.
  2. Pharmacognosy and Health Benefits of Cocoa Seeds, Cocoa Powder (Chocolate)