Critic
We Tested ‘WholeFruit,’ the Next Big Thing in Chocolate
Desserts made using the entire cacao fruit—instead of only the beans—are a delicious disruption of everyone’s favorite sweet.
Cacao pods.
Source: Barry Callebaut Group
Great chocolate, I’d suggest, is the most pleasurable thing a person can experience in polite company.
And for the past 100 years, the process for making the stuff has started in much the same way: The brightly colored, football-shaped pods of the cacao tree are harvested and split open. Inside each 7- to 10-inch-long pod are on average 20 to 40 beans surrounded by a sweet, white, nutrient-dense pulp.