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Nuts & seeds

Cocoa bean

Also called cacao, cacaoboon, cacao nut and cacao seed

A cocoa bean is a seed. Cooks roast cocoa beans or blend them into a paste.

Category
Nuts & seeds
Part used
Seed
Cooked most in
The Americas
Cocoa bean, whole

Photo: കാക്കര · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use cocoa bean

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Paste blend
  • Roast

Preparing it

Roast, crack and remove the shells to obtain nibs.

Cooking with it

Roasting whole beans or nibs changes their final flavor.

Around the world

Where cocoa bean is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses cocoa bean. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

  • Nicaragua 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list cocoa bean among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
South America
First cultivated
in Ecuador

On the table

Dishes made with cocoa bean

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Cushta

    Nicaragua

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include cocoa bean.

Family

Related forms

Made from it
chocolate (ground, roasted), cocoa powder (extracted, ground, roasted)

Around the world

What cocoa bean is called

Names in 61 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    grano de cacao · cacao · pepitas de cacao · granos de cacao

  • French

    fève de cacao · feve de cacao

  • Italian

    semi di cacao · granelli di cacao

  • Portuguese

    grão de cacau

  • German

    Kakaobohne · Cacaobohne

  • Dutch

    cacaoboon · cacaobonen

  • Greek

    κακάο

  • Turkish

    kakao çekirdeği

  • Russian

    какао-бобы

  • Polish

    kakao · ziarno kakaowe · forastero · criollo

  • Arabic

    كاكاو · حبوب الكاكاو · الكاكاو · حب الكاكاو

  • Persian

    کاکائو

Show all 61 languages

  • Afrikaans

    kakaoboon · kakao

  • Albanian

    gatim me kakao · kakao

  • Basque

    kakao

  • Bavarian

    Gaugau · Kakao

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    какава-боб · какава-бабы

  • Cantonese

    可可豆

  • Catalan

    gra de cacau

  • Chinese

    可可豆

  • Czech

    kakaový bob

  • Danish

    Kakaobønne

  • Esperanto

    kakao

  • Estonian

    kakaopuu seemned

  • Faroese

    kakao

  • Finnish

    kaakao

  • Galician

    gran de cacao

  • Hausa

    cocoa bean

  • Hebrew

    קקאו · אבקת קקאו

  • Hindi

    कोको

  • Hungarian

    kakaóbab

  • Ido

    kakao

  • Indonesian

    biji kakao

  • Irish

    pónaire chócó · síol cócó

  • Japanese

    カカオ豆 · ココア・ビーン

  • Kazakh

    какао бұршақтарын ферменттеу

  • Kikuyu

    Mboni

  • Korean

    코코아

  • kus

    Cocoa Bean

  • Latvian

    kakao pupiņa · kakao pupiņas

  • Lithuanian

    kakava

  • Low Saxon

    kakouboon

  • Macedonian

    какаово зрно · какао

  • Malay

    biji koko

  • Marathi

    कोको बीन्स

  • nah

    cacahuatetl

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kakaobønne · kakao

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    kakaobønne · kakaofrø · kakao

  • Pampanga

    cacao

  • Romanian

    boabe de cacao · cacao · pudră de cacao · nucă de cacao

  • Samogitian

    kakava

  • Scots

    cocoa bean

  • Serbian

    какао · Theobroma cacao

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    какао

  • Serbian (Latin)

    kakao

  • Serbian (Latin)

    kakao

  • Silesian

    kakau

  • Simplified Chinese

    可可豆

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    可可豆

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    可可豆

  • Slovak

    kakao

  • Slovenian

    kakavovo zrno · kakav

  • Swedish

    kakaoböna

  • Tatar

    какао борчагы

  • Traditional Chinese

    可可豆

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    可可豆

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    可可豆

  • Ukrainian

    какао-боби

  • Yiddish

    קאקאו

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q208008

Photos

Photo: കാക്കര · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons