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Super Rare Cacao Pod — premium exotic fruit | Fruit Plug

Malvaceae

Cacao & mallows family

Where chocolate begins — the raw cacao pod, fresh and unprocessed.

The family

Malvaceae is a sprawling family that includes cocoa, durian, baobab and okra. The cacao pod is the raw, unprocessed start of every chocolate bar — a long ridged shell holding sweet white pulp around purple beans. The pulp tastes nothing like chocolate; it eats like lychee sorbet. The beans are what becomes cocoa once they've been fermented, dried and roasted.

Try thisSuck the pulp off each seed; spit the bean or save a handful to ferment if you want to chase the chocolate.

In this family

1 fruit we source

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Super-rare cacao pods
Theobroma cacao
The original chocolate, in its raw form. Long ridged pods open onto sweet white pulp wrapped around the beans — the pulp eats like lychee sorbet, the beans are what becomes chocolate once they're fermented and roasted. Rarely seen outside the cacao belt, almost never sold whole in the UK.

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