yup! it's a raw material
Mung Bean Sprouts taste starchy like raw potatoes.
They are what is needed to be ground and harvested into cocoa powder, which is later turned into chocolate.
There are many recipes one can use fresh cocoa beans in. Crushing up the bean and grinding it will turn the bean into cocoa powder. From this form it can be added to make shakes or as a topping for yogurt. Adding cocoa to a homemade cake batter will give it a nice chocolate taste.
If clean and rinsed they are probably no better or worse than cooked beans. But there are few beans that do well raw, and soaked beans will not taste as good or have as pleasant a consistency as cooked beans will. Some raw beans cause gastric upset, and most simply taste awful. Generally speaking, and the current fad for raw foods notwithstanding, foods have been cooked over the years for good reasons. If nothing else, it ensures that they are bacteria-free.
Pure chocolate comes from Cocoa beans...a typical chocolate bar will also have sugar, milk (if it's milk chocolate, not if it's dark), cocoa butter, lecithin, flavorings (like vanilla)
It is assumed that the color of the raw beans comes from polyphenolic compounds and anthocyanins, which during the fermentation process, due to various transformations, form polycondensation products, the so called phlobaphenes. These compounds contribute to the formation of the typical brown color of cocoa beans
raw!
The raw materials needed to manufacture Reese Cups include cocoa beans for chocolate production, sugar for sweetness, peanuts for the filling, and milk for the creamy center. Additional ingredients may include cocoa butter, lecithin, and artificial flavors.
I have ate carrots before and they don't taste like peanuts to me! Maybe if they are raw, as i have ate raw carrots before and it didn't taste nice.
cocoa beans were discovered in the late 1600s by English Colonialists. Initially it was eaten raw. However in 1698, when taken back to London, after a chance discovery, Thimas Berkeley Cadbury discovered that cocoa beans mixed in with cows milk gave rise to the modern day chocolate we eat now
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