Cocoa powder can be prepared from cocoa beans, and oil. But the cocoa beans themselves carry more benefits than powder obtained from them, so the use of these nuts in the raw form among our contemporaries has been greatly popularity and has become one of the attributes of healthy nutrition.

Composition and calorie

Cocoa beans - a unique product in its composition, which is characterized by a significant amount (about 320) of various types of antioxidants, among which polyphenol takes one of the key positions. It is generally difficult to meet in any other of the well-known food.

Did you know? On the European part of the world, Cocoa fell in 1519 due to the Spaniards.

The composition of cocoa beans includes:
  • caffeine;
  • theobromine;
  • theophylline;
  • phenylethylamine;
  • melanin.

Submissible fatty acids:

  • linoleic;
  • stearin;
  • palmitic.

100 grams of cocoa beans contain:

  • copper - 2275 mg;
  • potassium - 747 mg;
  • phosphorus - 500 mg;
  • sulfur - 83 mg;
  • chlorine - 50 mg;
  • magnesium - 80 mg;
  • calcium - 28 mg;
  • sodium - 5 mg;
  • zinc - 4.5 mg;
  • iron - 4.1 mg;
  • manganese - 2.85 mg;
  • molybdenum - 40 μg;
  • fluorine - 30 μg;
  • cobalt - 27 μg.

 The energy value of 100 g cocoa beans is an average of 560 kcal, of which:
  • fats give - 85%;
  • proteins - 9%;
  • carbohydrates - 6%.
Vitamins:
  • A, B1, B2, RR, E - in minor quantities.

Did you know? Until recently, cocoa beans served as a petty monetary unit among the Indian population in the central part of America. In addition, today, the indigenous inhabitants of America are considered long-livers due to the constant use of cocoa beans and products from them.

What useful cocoa beans

A rare combination of a large number of useful substances in cocoa beans contributes:




Did you know? Cocoa in many corners of the world are presented as a drink of long-livers. Even Swiss doctors advise everyone after passing a forty-old age threshold to systematically use this product.

Separately about losing weight

Although cocoa does not differ in low calorieness, but this drink is well helped if you wish to lose weight, since it contains most of the vitamin and microelement components that are necessary for the normal functioning of the human body, especially when it is necessary to stay on strict dietary diet.
The only condition is not to add sugar to the product. To restore forces, one cup of this delicious drink per day with the possible addition of milk is enough.

Important! Men regular use of cocoa especiallyuseful, After all, it strengthens the protective functions of the body from early strokes, heart attacks, prostatitis, and also makes it possible to conduct productive sex life before old age.

Possible harm

But, like any product, cocoa beans have their own contraindications:


Important! Until three years old, Kakao is not categorically recommended. If parents risk and give their child this product, then it should be at least necessarily natural (dark brown color without any taste and flavored impurities with chocolate aroma).

How to eat cocoa beans

In case of systematic use of products from cocoa beans, a person is able to make a breath daily, improving physical, emotional, intellectual opportunities. You can use these grains, both in the raw form and in the recycled. There are various options from them products.

Raw

The use of raw green cocoa beans - the least time consuming, the easiest and today is becoming increasingly popular way.

The options for the delicious use of these grains in the raw form are abuse, for example, to level the bitter taste and even more use, they can be enveloped by honey, connect with nuts.

But in order to fully feel an unforgettable original taste of chocolate, you need 1 tablespoon of grain. To remove the skin with green, you need to put them in boiling water for several minutes.

Did you know? Cocoa Bean skin is also value, excellent scrubs for the body and even face come out in the grinding form.

Cocoa Powder Drink

Since childhood, every familiar taste of cocoa. Absolutely natural such drink can be prepared independently. For this, the grain cocoa must be grinding in a coffee grinder to a homogeneous powder consistency, pour boiling water.
If desired, such a delicacy is seasoned with milk, the sugar is possible. The taste of such a product remains unforgettable.

Did you know? On average, about forty cocoa fruits or more than a thousand green is needed to get 1 kilogram of powder at the output.

Cocoa beans are very useful fruits. The use of them is multifaceted, because it is not only eating food, but also use in cosmetology or pharmaceutical directions. The main thing if you wish to feel healthy with this useful product - to observe the measure.

How to cook chocolate from cocoa bean: video

Useful properties of cocoa beans

Cocoa beans are seeds of cocoa tree fruit. Chocolate is made of them. Due to the content of tubyl substances, seeds have a binding, tart and bitter taste. They contain carbohydrates, proteins, fats, aromatic and coloring substances, organic acids. Minerals, alkaloids (caffeine and theobromin) are useful for consumption. The chemical composition of cocoa beans is very extensive, anandamide, arginine, dopamine, epicatecine, histamine, magnesium, serotonin are present in it.

A very important effect is provided on the human body tryptophan, phenylethylamine, polyphenol and thiramine.

Application of cocoa beans

In the raw form, unique fruits are incredibly useful for the human body. They restore the energy and hormonal balance, contribute to improving vision, improving performance, raise the tone, have an antidepressant effect. Cocoa seed nutrients increase the protective properties of the body, cocoa is injected into a diet of physically weakened people who have failed the ARZ and respiratory diseases. Purified cocoa beans can be chewing, they are crispy, gentle, have a great taste.

The use of cocoa eliminates apathy, normalizes the menstrual cycle, rejuvenates. With long, but moderate use as a medical agent, noticeable changes will occur with skin, disappeared, papillomas, the skin will be cleaned and will become young and tender. Raw cocoa fruits are a reliable protection against cancer development. The complex chemical composition of the fruit excites the nervous system, activates the heart functions and warns the formation of thrombov.

Antioxidants are able to reduce the activity of free radicals in the cells of the human body, which is effective for protection against viruses and infections. Polyphenols (antioxidants) split fats and are reliable development prevention and cardiovascular diseases. It was Polyphenols that give Bobs a tart-binding and specific bitter taste.

Cocoa Bean Oil

Cocoa oil is a fat derived from chocolate fruit grains having a pleasant smell of cocoa and whiteish yellow color. At 16-18 degrees, the oil is solid texture, pieces are easily laid out. In heated form, the oil is transparent, its chemical composition includes oleic, stearin, laurin, palmitic, linoleic and arachnic acids, and three-cell triglycerides. Oleic acid reduces blood content.

Methylxanthine substances and tannin have a healing and tonic effect, help with various skin diseases, stimulate the immune system. Cocoa oil rejuvenates the skin, giving her freshness and beauty. It is successfully applied in the treatment of eczema, bronchi, eliminates.

Cough Remedies: In a glass with hot milk, it is necessary to melt a 0.5 teaspoon of cocoa oil. The drink should cool a little and give a sick.

Cocoa oil with hemorrhoids: During the exacerbation of the disease, it is recommended to introduce a piece of cocoa oil into the line of the intestine to the rectum (approximately 1 teaspoon).

Cocoa oil during thrush:it is necessary to add 2% of the tea tree oil to preheated oil, roll in the form of balls, give to harden. It is recommended to enter the vagina 1 time per day.

Cocoa butter during cervical erosion: Cocoa butter can be mixed with sea buckthorn oil (3: 1), moistened in a mixture of tampon to use for the night for 14 days.

Cocoa oil during atherosclerosis: It is recommended to take a 0.5 teaspoon melted on a water bath oil cocoa twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, 15 minutes before meals. The tool eliminates cholesterol, reduces the amount of cholesterol plaques on the walls of the vessels, helps with the skin itching, pain relief in burns, effectively with both fungal lesions. It is also recommended for nipple healing in nursing mothers.

Cocoa Bean Extract

Cocoa bean extract is a brown fine powder, it is used to reduce blood pressure, nervous voltage. It is mainly used to treat nephropathy, as a diuretic, eliminates edema. , Fever, cough, non-heaven - indications for the use of cocoa extract.

Cocoa bean extract is produced in pharmaceutical factories.

Cocoa Beans Slimming

Cocoa beans are very helpful in the fight against overweight. They are able to accelerate metabolic processes, and this happens on the intercellular and intracellular level. Improving the functions of the endocrine system, normalizing the fat balance, they reduce appetite, which leads to a decrease in weight. Several cocoa beans eaten an empty stomach give a sense of saturation, such a breakfast can be called full, since the body gets the necessary substances. 4-5 pieces of beans give strength, replenish energy reserves.

Magnesium affects the production of ATP, caffeine accelerates metabolism, serotonin and endorphins are produced - substances, so necessary to maintain a good physical form.

Calorie Cocoa Bean

The energy value of cocoa beans is 565.3 kcal. On average, it is 16-28% of the daily rate, useful for the human body.

Cocoa Bean Tree

There are three types of cocoa beans: Trinitario, Criollo and Forstero. Crioll trees seeds painted slightly, feature a nut odor. Fruits of Forstero tree fruits are dark brown, with a sharp smell, they mustrsha and contain more fat. Plants of the formastero type are steady withstand hard climate climate conditions. Each view has its own individual chemical characteristics. The varieties get the name of countries where they are grown.

Also, cocoa beans are distinguished by quality features. Consumer varieties have a tart, sour with mustard taste. Noble varieties have a pleasant, pronounced taste.

How to grow cocoa beans

Cocoa beans are growing in South America's subcorvatory regions, cultivated in many countries. Cocoa trees prefer a little darkened places, so coconut palms, banana, rubber and mango trees are planted next to them, and avocado, which is pretty reliably protects cocoa from wind. The height of the cocoa tree can reach 15 meters of height, but for the convenience of harvesting, they are grown to 6 meters.

Evergreen tree blooms and fruits all year round. Yellow-green or red (depends on the variety) reaches 30 cm long, their weight is about 500 grams. The fetal pulp is approximately 50 cocoa beans. The tree begins to give a high harvest at the age of 12. Culture culture in Central America and Africa, Indonesia, Colombia, Malaysia and other regions.

Contraindications to the use of cocoa beans

Cocoa beans must be used with caution with individual intolerance. They can cause allergic reactions. It is impossible to give products from cocoa to children under three years. Cocoa is contraindicated in kidney disease causes irritation of the gastric mucosa and stimulates the production of gastric juice, so it cannot be used to people with serious gastrointestinal diseases, especially in the exacerbation stage.


Expert editor: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist

Education: Diploma RGMU them. N. I. Pirogov in the specialty "Therapeutic case" (2004). Ordinature at the Moscow State Medical and Dental University, a diploma in the specialty "Endocrinology" (2006).

The fact that cocoa beans are extremely helpful no longer requires evidence, because their composition includes:

  • minerals
  • caffeine,
  • theobromine,
  • dolomin
  • histamine,
  • serotonin
  • vitamins B1 and B2,
  • carbohydrates
  • proteins
  • fats.

In general, you can especially note a few useful and therapeutic properties of cocoa beans.


  • They are the strongest natural antioxidant,
  • improve and even restore vision,
  • help reduce weight losing weight
  • slow down aging processes,
  • improve the state of the vessels,
  • strengthen the heart
  • help to fight depression.

What useful cocoa beans

  • Slow aging and strengthening immunity

They occur due to the antioxidant properties of cocoa beans.

  • Improving vision functions


The beneficial effect on vision is due to beta carotene. This provitamin has a strong prophylactic effect in eye diseases.

  • Weight loss

Help in weight reduction When eating cocoa bobs is due to the presence of nutrients in them, accelerating the metabolism of substances normalizing the processes of the metabolism of fats and carbohydrates.

  • Rejuvenating effect

The rejuvenating effect of cocoa beans is determined by the presence of nicotine acid, which synthesizes the "proteins of youth" - keratin and collagen.

  • Help with heart disease

Strengthening the heart muscle and vessels causes the tormum substance that contributes to blood circulation and prevents the formation of thrombus.

Who needs to eat cocoa beans

This product is shown almost all people with rare exceptions. Especially recommended cocoa beans to those who work a lot, as they increase performance. Those who have problems with bone fragility, cocoa beans are needed to strengthen and prevent osteoporosis. Those who wish to lose weight will also not prevent eating this beautiful product. Our comrades and friends suffering from poor mood and depression! Mental labor workers will be satisfied with Cocoa BeaBov for the reason that their memory improves and attention.

How to eat cocoa beans

Daily use of milk from cocoa displays toxins. Wishing to quit smoking, as well as those who fight alcoholism need to chew cocoa grains. But in order to improve memory and mental processes, it is necessary to brew cocoa grains, insist and drink, with sugar or honey as desired. Dosage Cocoa Beans is limited. It is advisable not to exceed 50 grams per day. There are some contraindications. Cocoa Beans do not recommend eating up to three years to children, pregnant women, as well as people who have a pronounced allergic reaction to cocoa beans.

Recipes from cocoa bean

  • Cocoa bean grains with honey

To begin with, you can try cocoa grains just raw and without seasonally. Then, to give a shade to taste, you can add honey. It is simple and tasty. If the nuts clear, then the taste will change. It will become more refined and gentle.

  • Chips cocoa bean

Fasters of cocoa grain in a coffee grinder, it is possible to use this chips from cocoa to enhance the taste of desserts and ice cream. The taste of some fruits is very pleasant if they are slightly sprinkled with cocoa chips. Raw cocoa grains are very good for cooking desserts, drinks and candies. But you need to remember that it is impossible to add boiling water to raw beans, since their useful properties may disappear from high temperatures.

You will need half a teaspoon cocoa oil. It must be added to the glass with warm, not too hot milk. Such a tasty and useful drink will allow you to quickly overcome the disease.

  • Recipe against hemorrhoids

To do this, you will need clean cocoa oil, no more than one teaspoon. It must be introduced into the rear pass three times a day, especially if hemorrhoids delivers discomfort and discomfort.

  • Cocoa against thrush

A small amount of tea tree oil and cocoa beans oil is taken (heated). The ingredients are mixed, roll in the candles and are introduced into the vagina 1 time per day.

Take in proportions 3: 1 Cocoa buta oil and sea buckthorn oil, mix, mix tampon in this mixture. Enter it every night for two weeks. If necessary, the course repeat.

  • In atherosclerosis

Cocoa oil must be melt in a water bath and take half a teaspoon twice a day. Preferably, 15 minutes before meals.

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The fruits of Cocoa also used the Indians of Decolumbovka America, and the scientific name Theobroma Cacao, translated from Latin - "Food of the Gods", the tree received in the middle of the XVIII century from the Swedish scientist Karl Lynnei.

Such a pathetic name is easily explained - in cocoa beans, according to biologists, contains about 400 substances, most of their useful, and sometimes even essential to human health properties.

Where and how the cocoa beans grow

Comfortable conditions for growing cocoa wood - high humidity, hot climate, lack of direct sunlight.

As a resort person who does not want to burn, they simply need sungular agents. Typically, this role takes on light-minded banana trees and coconut palms.

In the second year of life, flowers appear on cocoa trees, of which fruit ripen in 2-3 years. After that, trees are fruit for another 20-25 years.

Today, the habitat of Wild Theobroma Cacao is a narrow belt around the equator: within 10 degrees of northern and 10 degrees of southern latitude. Cocoa plantations can be found in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Absolute leadership in terms of production and export of cocoa belongs to the West African Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. Other major producers are considered Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Indonesia and Brazil.

Three main types of cocoa wood varieties:

Criollo (Creolen) - Elite variety, originally from Venezuela. Beans are distinguished by low acid content, pronounced aroma and almost absence of bitterness. Unfortunately, the trees of cryoplo are the least yield and are often susceptible to diseases.

Forastero (Fausto) - He originates from the Jungle Amazonia. This is a stronger type of wood, easily grown and most damned (its share accounts for about 85% of the global production of cocoa beans). Most of the grades of Forastero have a characteristic taste of cocoa, but they are not fragrant, partially bitter or sour.

Trinitario (Trinitario) From Trinidada is a Criollo and Forstero hybrid and combines a number of taste qualities of the first with resistance to the second disease. Trinitario has a strong, but noble aroma with light sourness and belongs to elite varieties.

Cocoa Bean Processing

Cocoa fruit consists of a shell and pulp, in which 30-50 small (about 2.5 centimeters in length) of almond-shaped seeds-beans are located. They have bitter-tart taste and pale color.

Ripe fruits manually removed from the trees, gently destroy and take out the precious seeds covered with a white flesh. Then they are folded into wooden boxes, covered with banana leaves and leave for 5-6 days. During this time, in the fermentation process (fermentation), the natural bitterness of cocoa beans is eliminated and a characteristic chocolate taste is formed.

After fermentation, the beans are dried in the sun, fold into jute bags and sent to the factory. There made grated cocoa, cocoa butter and cocoa powder.

Cocoa grated and cocoa oil are used as the main component in the production of chocolate and chocolate products, and cocoa powder is widely used in confectionery, dairy and bakery industries.

In addition, some of the components of cocoa fruit are used in pharmaceuticals and cosmetic products.

Cocoa Bean Use

Cocoa has unique and, it would seem mutually exclusive action - on the one hand increases the activity of the brain, on the other, it helps the body relax, improves sleep. This is due to the theobromine - a substance that is similar to caffeine for the chemical structure, but is devoid of its main disadvantage - almost a narcotic addiction. Caffeine, by the way, is also present in Cocoa grains, however, in minor quantities.

For a long time noted the ability of cocoa beans to increase vitality and improve the mood, stimulating the production of "hormones of joy" - endorphins.

The presence in cocoa polyphenols contributes to the stabilization of blood pressure, and the procyanidines present in it effectively remove stress and have a wonderful property - rejuvenate the skin of the face, increasing its elasticity.

It turns out that Cocoa is useful to use both people suffering from hypertension and those who are actively engaged in sports. And still students when preparing for exams.

Living Cocoa - Real Trend

Particularly useful is the "live" cocoa beans that have not been subjected to thermal processing. The "living" cocoa contains 6-7 times more antioxidants than any other plant product, and on the content of magnesium in five more than once exceeds its nearest plant competitor - the fruits of the Palm of Asai.

New methods for processing cocoa beans using low temperatures can be made more useful to make a product with low temperatures in the cocoa powder drying.

"For the first time I learned about the" alive "chocolate, probably in 2005 in India. Having read about the wonderful properties of this product, I turned to a friend of the Hindu with a request to get a thermally not treated cocoa bean for me.

There are raw cocoa beans that he brought me, it turned out quite difficult - the robe was not shot with them, had to scold her in the water. The beans were bitter taste and rubber on the consistency, but I ate!

Only a few months later, in America, it bought environmentally friendly cocoa beans, specially grown and treated for consumption in raw form. Then I realized that such a real "live" chocolate!

And now, since the cocoa beans is a constant additive to my diet. They improve the mood, saturate the body with vital elements, increase the tone, improve well-being.

And when in 2009 I came to Russia, my father and I founded the company to import them. We can say that we have discovered this market in Russia. I spent a lot of lectures, master classes for the preparation of delicious and useful sweets from this miracle product. Live cocoa is delicious, useful and fun!

It is better to start with 20-25 beans or 2-2.5 teaspoons of ground cocoa.

The most important thing is in the raw form you can use only high-quality cocoa beans of elite varieties grown in environmentally friendly areas without the use of chemical fertilizers. "

The popularity of the unusual use of cocoa is growing rapidly. Chocolate Yoga even appeared in America - the raw sweetened cocoa beans appeared before doing yoga. In Russia, fashion for useful cocoa has just begun, but now it can be purchased in online healthy nutrition stores.

1. At the Aztecs, and later in the conquistadors of cocoa beans served as an equivalent of money.

3. The first European, who tried the drink from Cocoa, was Christopher Columbus. According to him, he did not deliver great pleasure.

4. It is the form of cocoa bob that prompted at the beginning of the twentieth century a form of a bottle of Coca-Cola.

5. About 6 billion cocoa trees are growing in the world.

6. 70% of cocoa beans produce small farms.

7. The word chocolate came to European languages \u200b\u200bfrom the Aztec language of Mexicans "Naiam" - the drink from Cocoa beans they called "Chocolatl".

8. The high percentage of cocoa content does not affect the bitterness of chocolate, but contributes to the fact that it is better melting in the mouth.

Recipes from Dili Zapadarova

Drink Montesums

Ingredients:

  • Cocoa beans - 60 grams;
  • Sea or Himalayan salt - 1/4 of part;
  • Honey or xylitis - 1 tbsp. l.;
  • Vanilla is reverted - 1/4 part of the part (or the third vanilla pod, but it is necessary to the powder state);
  • Kayensky - pepper to taste;
  • Cinnamon - to taste;
  • Cold water - 200 ml.;
  • Hot water - 200 ml.

Cooking:

1.

2. We add to the blender the resulting cleaner, a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of honey or xylitol, a sleeve of vanilla, 200 ml of cold water and mix.

3. Add 200 ml of hot water, Cayenne pepper and cinnamon to taste and mix everything again in a blender.

You can drink both in cold and hot. The drink is perfectly warming up in the cold seasons, and is also useful in the treatment of colds.

Porridge Le Cacao L'Amande La Framboise

Ingredients:

  • Cocoa beans - 60 grams;
  • Sea or Himalayan salt - 1/4 part of a teaspoon;
  • Honey - 1 tbsp. l.;
  • Almonds died - 100 grams;
  • Malina - 3 tbsp. l. (can be more);
  • Water - 100 ml.;
  • Vanilla is reverted - 1/4 part of a teaspoon (or a third vanilla pod, but at the same time it needs to be disclosed to a powder condition).

Cooking:

1. Cocoa beans are grinding in a coffee grinder to a sticky consistency, that is, the oils come out.

2. Mix almonds, cocoa, water, honey, salt and vanilla in the blender.

3. We add raspberries and mix in the blender again.

4. We lay out the resulting porridge into the bowls, decorate the slices of banana and raspberry berries.

For many cocoa is the taste and smell of joy, because it is inseparable connected with chocolate, which increases endorphin - hormone of happiness. In addition, Cocao has long been called the food of the gods and are used to increase the energy, the activity of the brain and the prevention of many diseases. We will tell about the beneficial properties of cocoa beans and give recipes.

Generally cocoa is the form of evergreen small trees from the kind ofobroma, which grows in the tropical forests of Central and South America. In these trees, edible fruits grow, in them - seeds, thanks to which cocoa trees are known worldwide. It is the seeds that are used in the confectionery industry and medicine. All wears the name of the tree itself and is called "cocoa": both trees, and the fruits themselves, and seeds, and their derivatives in the form of a drink or powder. All this is very valuable for a person, although many continue to argue on the topic of benefit and harm Cocoa. Let's just say: the benefits of cocoa beans are underestimated. The Aztecs from the 14th century considered Cocoa with the sacred gift of God's freedom and used it to prepare a tart drink (according to historians, absolutely not similar to today's cocoa). And Spanish conquistadors in 1519, after the conquest of Mexico, they realized that the "brown gold" got into their hands - in the treasures of the Emperor Aztecs, they found 25 thousand ccanet centners.


Use and harm Cocoa Bean

In a word, cocoa is real wealth, and contains a lot of useful elements useful to our organism. One of them is epicatechin. He, proven by scientists of Harvard University, reduces the incidence of common diseases - stroke, myocardial infarction, cancer and diabetes - by almost 10%. Another element is Kokhokhil - promotes the growth of skin cells, thereby heals wounds and smoothes wrinkles, foreshadowing the risk of stomach ulcers. In addition, organic cocoa in crude shape contains adrenaline, which gives a feeling of Euphoria, Arginine is a natural aphrodisiac, tryptophan - natural antidepressant, magnesium, sulfur. Thanks to magnesium, cocoa helps the heart work more efficiently - swing blood, reduce pressure, help build strong bones, and thanks to the sulfur - improves skin, hair and nails. It also reduces blood glucose levels, it confirmed research. Plus, the living cocoa is also the best antioxidant. Because the number of antioxidants in it is several times higher than in the usual green tea, the berries of the Asai, blueberries and blackberries. In general, the benefits of cocoa beans are huge.

It turns out that by using cocoa, you risk becoming a happy, cheerful man with a high immunity, a healthy heart, beautiful skin, thick hair and strong nails. It seems to be a risk!

But it should be borne in mind that only organic cocoa beans will benefit - which do not contain chemical elements, taste and aroma amplifiers, dairy additives or sugars. It is also important to know that real organic beans should not be processed by machines - only manually, otherwise there will be harmful metals in their composition. Simple recipes for cocoa beans On the form of cocoa beans look like almonds, only their skin is darker and with black splashes. It's hard to say about the smell because it drives you crazy: strong, but not tart. So the most present cocoa smells - this smell of chocolate with vanilla notes. Taste - bitter. The feeling that is sprinkling the grain of coffee. With cocoa beans you can experiment, but you should always be careful and remember that the recommended dose of the use of raw cocoa is not more than 4-5 tablespoons per day for a person weighing 70 kgAnd that there is cocoa better evenly during the day at 1-1.5 tablespoon, and no later than three hours before sleep, because it is greatly brown.

There are many ways to taste live cocoa beans (and solid, and crushed so-called cocoa feathers). The easiest and most tasty - eat raw nuts, having dipped them in honey. You can eat peeled nuts with honey - the taste will be more gentle and without a mustard. To remove the skirt, you need to pour boiling water for a couple of minutes and then cutting it off the knife along. By the way, the peel contains a lot of useful substances, so it is not worth throwing it away - it is better to grind it in a coffee grinder and use as a scrub for face and body. By the way, you can simply cast the beans in a coffee grinder and the resulting chips sprinkle desserts, add to coffee or to dip fruits. There are many more cocoa bean recipes. One of them is useful and, most importantly, very tasty chocolate candies. For them, it will take: 50g cocoa beans (pre-purified), 50g cocoa oil (if any), 30g honey, nuts (hazelnut, almonds), raisins - 1 to candy

Recipe candy from organic cocoa beans and cocoa oils:

  1. Grind cocoa beans very finely, sift through the sieve and grind again.
  2. Cocoa oil melt, mix with honey and cocoa powder (it is better to use stainless container).
  3. Prepare forms, decompose nuts and raisins in them.
  4. Pour into the molds and put in the refrigerator.