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Chocolate comes from cacao pods, but how many cacao pods make one chocolate bar?

If lucky, I can find relatively fresh cacao pods at the store, for about $12 each. I got two but here's a pic of one.

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Cacao pods vary in their appearance, and this one looks like a rumply dark brown squash. It's long and pinched at both ends, like a long brown grumpy lemon. It has rough ridges that look like tree bark but feel smooth like squash rinds. It's kinda cute!

Sweet news this winter! 🍫❄️ We have sequenced a cacao genome - just in time for the cozy season:

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.23.624982

#ChocolateScience #WinterWonders #Genomics
@PuckerLab @tubraunschweig

Picture of the Theobroma cacao plant growing in a greenhouse in the Botanical Garden at TU Braunschweig. Figure source: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.23.624982

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