It may be confusing to differentiate cocoa from cacao, but when it comes to the latter, you're likely thinking of the beans.

A truck pulls up to a chocolate factory, loaded with sacks of cocoa beans. The air buzzes with excitement as workers unload ...

Grist reports that rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and ...

but design flaws aside this computer interface allows rather strict control of the roasting profile. Reader [Youseff] tipped us off about this after seeing the Popcorn Coffee Bean roaster from ...

Those of us aligned with chocolate—the product of ground, roasted cacao beans—find it warm, comforting, ambrosial, and generally dismiss all things unchocolate as “vanilla,” meaning bland ...

Chocolate is made by roasting and grinding up cocoa beans to yield chocolate 'liquor'. This comprises around 50 per cent cocoa solids and 50 per cent cocoa butter (the fat from the beans).

Cacao beans were being sold at a farm gate price (the very minimum value a product can have) while larger manufacturers would roast her cacao into cocoa, which can then be used to make chocolate.