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Cocoa
This article is about the cocoa plant. For the drink, see Hot chocolate.
Cacao pods in a hand-coloured photo from about 1903.
Cocoa is the seed of the cacao tree. The seed contains a lot of fat and is used to produce cocoa butter. Cocoa butter is then used to produce chocolate. The cocoa which is used to make chocolate is a fine powder.