Ingredients

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Coffee, cocoa and tea crops

1 ingredient

AI-generated editorial image of fresh cacao seeds still coated in pale mucilage in a simple bowl; shown before fermentation, not a source photograph or record of a particular Ghanaian process.
Substrates

Fresh cocoa beans with pulp

Fresh cocoa beans with pulp are cacao seeds newly removed from the pod while the sweet-acid white mucilage still clings to them. The seed-and-pulp mass is the starting material for post-harvest cocoa fermentation.