Fermented cocoa beans drying in African village, Ghana West Africa

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The fatty seeds or beans of cocoa cacao from the pods are partially fermented and dried before roasting to give cocoa and chocolate Cocoa butter is extracted from the seeds The trees are grown in wet lowland tropical equitorial forests often in the shade of taller trees The leaves are large leathery and oblong The pods contain between 20 to 40 seeds

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Location: Ghana West Africa African,
Photo credit: © GS International / Alamy / Afripics
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