Cacao
Cacao is an ancient Indigenous American word that refers to the tree Theobroma cacao, and both unprepared and prepared (into food or drink) tree View Entry
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Cacao, Specialty
Specialty cacao is cacao produced on a notion of quality in every single step of the supply chain from the seeds to the cocoa beans. View Entry
Cacao, wild (native)
Wild cacao denotes any pod from trees that occur spontaneous (without human interference) or subspontaneous (wild cacao trees exploited by man) in the Amazon Forest. View Entry
Certification
Certification of cocoa beans means that cocoa farmers’ compliance with set requirements, often economic, social or environmental rules, has been monitored.
Certification means firstly that View Entry
Child
According to the International Charter on Children’s Rights and to ILO Convention 138 on Minimum Age, a child is any human being, male or female,
Child Work
Child work (light work) includes activities such as helping their parents around the home, assisting in a family business, or earning pocket money outside school View Entry
Chocolate
Chocolate is a food made with roasted and refined cacao beans with sugar and other ingredients.
In all cases, a chocolate must contain the fat View Entry
Chocolate Bar
A chocolate bar is a solid, shaped product containing chocolate made with some or all of the following: cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, and milk. View Entry
Chocolate Bark
To learn more about chocolate bark, please see the entry for chocolate bar. View Entry
Chocolate Maker
At the broadest level, any person or entity that transforms dry cacao into chocolate, regardless of method or volume.
Making chocolate involves several transformative steps, View Entry