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  Cocoa -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
In the United States, 'cocoa' often refers to cocoa powder, the dry powder made by grinding cocoa seeds and removing the cocoa butter from the dark, bitter cocoa solids.
This "liquor" is converted to cocoa powder by removing part of its fatty oils (the "cocoa butter") using a hydraulic press or the Broma process.
en.wikipedia.2es.com.pl /wiki/Cocoa   (1449 words)

  
  Cocoa - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
In the United States, 'cocoa' often refers to cocoa powder, the dry powder made by grinding cocoa seeds and removing the cocoa butter from the dark, bitter cocoa solids.
This "liquor" is converted to cocoa powder by removing part of its fatty oils (the "cocoa butter") using a hydraulic press or the Broma process.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Cocoa   (1091 words)

  
 White chocolate - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Cocoa butter is the ingredient used in other chocolates so that they remain solid at room temperature yet melt easily in the mouth.
As white chocolate does not contain cocoa solids or cocoa mass, it does not meet the standards to be called chocolate in many countries.
Vegetable fat derived white chocolate is white in color, whereas cocoa butter derived white chocolate is ivory colored.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/White_chocolate   (569 words)

  
 Cocoa Encyclopedia Article @ BodyMists.com (Body Mists)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chocolate or cocoa powder is mixed into cakes, ice creams, creams, cookies, or drinks as a natural flavour.
Cocoa has about twice as many antioxidants as does red wine, and up to three times more than green tea.
Sustainable cocoa farming encourages the economic, social and environmental conditions necessary to improve the livelihoods of small scale cocoa farmers in the tropics.
www.bodymists.com /encyclopedia/Cocoa   (1701 words)

  
 Chocolate: gourmet chocolate, charlie and the chocolate factory, hot chocolate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The cocoa beans were ground and mixed with water to produce a variety of beverages, both sweet and bitter, which were reserved for only the highest noblemen and clerics of the Mesoamerican world.
Cocoa butter is removed from the resulting chocolate liquor either by being pressed or by the Broma process.
Dark chocolate, with its high cocoa content, is a rich source of the flavonoids epicatechin and gallic acid, which are thought to possess cardioprotective properties.
advantacell.com /wiki/Chocolate   (4103 words)

  
 Cocoa Beans
Cocoa beans are the seeds, contained in a cucumber-like fruit, of the cacao tree, a...
Cocoa beans were first used by the ancient Mayan and Aztec cultures in what is now southern Mexico.
Whether the cocoa beans are transhipped from Africa to Europe, or from central or South America to the USA, shipments...
www.1chocolate.com /chocolates/Cocoa-Beans.html   (539 words)

  
 Cocoa - Thagodz Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If sweating is interrupted, the resulting cocoa may be ruined; if underdone the cocoa seed maintains a flavor similar to raw potatoes and becomes susceptible to mildew.
The Cocoa Protocol has been critiqued by a number of groups including the International Labor Rights Fund since it is an industry initiative which has failed to meet its goals of phasing out child labor in the industry.
However, since the mid-2000s, some cocoa derivatives with a low concentration of xanthines, have been designed by specialized industry to be suitable for pet consumption, enabling the pet food industry to offer animal safe chocolate and cocoa flavored products.
www.thagodz.com /search/wiki/?title=Cocoa   (1657 words)

  
 Qwika - similar:Chocolate
Chocolate liquor, also known as cocoa liqour and cocoa massis, is a smooth liquid form of chocolate produced by grinding the cocoa bean's center, the cotyledon.
Chocolate milk is a drink concocted from milk, cocoa (often processed with alkali), sweeteners (usually sugar, dextrose, or high fructose corn syrup), and sometimes other ingredients including starch, salt, carrageenan, vanilla, and artificial flavoring.
Cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil, is the edible natural fat of the cacao bean, extracted during the process of making chocolate and cocoa powder.
www.qwika.com /rels/Chocolate   (1490 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Cocoa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cocoa And Dark Chocolate Show Positive Effects On Ldls But Don't Shun Veggies (October 24, 2001) -- A Penn State-led study has found that a diet high in flavonoid-rich cocoa powder and dark chocolate had favorable effects on LDL ("bad" cholesterol) when compared with a diet that limited or excluded...
Cocoa Intake Linked To Lower Blood Pressure, Reduced Risk Of Death (February 28, 2006) -- A study of elderly Dutch men indicates that eating or drinking cocoa is associated with lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of death, according to an article in the February 27 issue of Archives...
Cocoa -- Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/cocoa   (1519 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Computers : Programming : Languages : Cocoa
Chocolate and cocoa are made from the beans of the cacao tree, which apparently originated in the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon and Orinoco basins of South America.
Cocoa powder is made from this "liquor" by removing part of its fatty oils (the "cocoa butter" used in confectionery, soaps, and cosmetics), either with a hydraulic press or by using the Broma process.
Cocoa has nearly twice the anti-cancer antioxidants of red wine, and up to three times those found in green tea.
www.directopedia.org /directory/Computers-Programming/Languages-Cocoa.shtml   (1174 words)

  
 Cocoa
Cocoa : 'The food of the gods', as cocoa was called 500 years ago when the Spanish came upon it in South America, remains a precious commodity.
Chocolate and cocoa are made from the beans of the cacao tree, which apparently originated in the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon and Orinoco basins of South America.
Dutch processed cocoa is Cocoa treated with alkali to neutralize some of the harsh acid compounds of the original cocoa.
www.etawau.com /HTML/Cocoa/Cocoa.htm   (1592 words)

  
 Caffeinism Encyclopedia Article @ Overreacted.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is found in the leaves and beans of the coffee plant, in tea, yerba mate, and guarana berries, and in small quantities in cocoa, the kola nut and the Yaupon Holly.
Overall, caffeine is found in the beans, leaves, and fruit of over 60 plants, where it acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kills certain insects feeding upon them.
Caffeine is a plant alkaloid, found in numerous plant species, where it acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kills certain insects feeding upon them.
www.overreacted.net /encyclopedia/Caffeinism   (4696 words)

  
 White chocolate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
White chocolate is a confection of sugar, cocoa butter, and milk solids.
The high melting point of cocoa butter allows white chocolate and chocolate to remain solid at room temperature, yet melt easily in the mouth.
As white chocolate does not contain cocoa solids nor chocolate liquor (cocoa mass), it does not meet the standard to be marketed as chocolate in many countries.
www.tocatch.info /en/White_Chocolate.htm   (514 words)

  
 Ask Us A Question   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cocoa powder or chocolate is added to make a chocolate cake.
A finished cake is often enhanced by covering it with frosting, or icing, and toppings such as sprinkles, which are also known as "jimmies" in certain parts of the United States.
Frosting is usually made from a fat of some sort, powdered (icing) sugar, sometimes milk or cream, and often flavourings such as vanilla extract or cocoa powder.
www.sanpablocaus.com /details/Cake   (1515 words)

  
 Cocoa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
hot chocolate, but hot cocoa is made from the cocoa solids, while true hot chocolate is made from whole chocolate.
Cocoa powder is made from this "liquor" by removing part of its fatty
Dutch process cocoa powder, which is what is generally available most everywhere in the world except the United States and has less acidity.
www.writen4u.com /public/Cocoa.asp   (1003 words)

  
 Cocoa - Cocoa
Cocoa Programming:Categories and Informal Protocols with virtual Ins...
One thing that I get a kick out of is how the so-called "expert" Cocoa programmers repeat over and over, ad naseum how "Categories" are cool, as long as you understand that you can add methods to existing base classes, but not instance variables.
While this may be true in a strict "syntactical sense", it is certainly not true in the semantic sense.
cocoa.0x00000000.net   (1277 words)

  
 The Hippocampus and Disambiguation of Overlapping Sequences -- Agster et al. 22 (13): 5760 -- Journal of Neuroscience
The Hippocampus and Disambiguation of Overlapping Sequences -- Agster et al.
Scores are shown for the final stage of preoperative training and in postoperative testing with minimal and 30 min delay before presentation of pair 5.
highlighted the capacity of hippocampal circuits in sequence disambiguation for both spatial and nonspatial memory.
www.jneurosci.org /cgi/content/full/22/13/5760   (6908 words)

  
 Ask Us A Question   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Criollo, the variety native to Central America, the Caribbean islands and the northern tier of South American states, is the rarest and most expensive cocoa on the market.
Chocolate, with enough cocoa butter, flows gently over a chocolate fountain to serve fondue.
Processing cocoa with alkali destroys most of the flavonoids.
www.antiochcaus.com /info/Chocolate   (4298 words)

  
 Cocoa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nearly 70% of the world crop is grown in West Africa.
This is an increase of 131.7% in 30 years.
Cocoa news page - Alcohol and Drugs History Society
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cocoa   (1533 words)

  
 Caffeine Encyclopedia Article @ Disconcerted.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chocolate derived from cocoa contains a small amount of caffeine.
Main articles: History of cocoa, History of coffee, Origin and early history of tea
Theobromine is also the principal alkaloid in cocoa, and therefore chocolate.
www.disconcerted.net /encyclopedia/Caffeine   (4701 words)

  
 Chocolate - Candy Blog
The antioxidant compounds are found in the cocoa solids (the control group used white chocolate, so they know it’s not the cocoa butter that’s having the positive effect), so adding cocoa to your sauces or stews might be a good start.
These (except for the dark chocolate one) are from their Cocoa de Maracaibo line.
Cocoa d’Arriba Orange - This particular Longs falls under the Cocoa d’Arriba line, which is 77% cacao chocolate from Ecuador.
www.typetive.com /candyblog/category/chocolate/P165   (8170 words)

  
 American Beauty
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
American Beauty Cake is a type of cake that enjoys some popularity in parts of Texas and the American South.
Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, flour, cocoa powder, and either beets or red food coloring to give it a red color.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/am/American_Beauty.html   (194 words)

  
 Cocoa (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cocoa (API), an API and programming environment for Mac OS X
Cocoa, Florida, a town in the United States
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cocoa_(disambiguation)   (114 words)

  
 cocoa - OneLook Dictionary Search
Cocoa, cocoa : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
COCOA : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
Phrases that include cocoa: cocoa butter, sea cocoa, dutch-processed cocoa, cocoa payol, bambu cocoa, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=cocoa   (301 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The part I found most interesting was learning about the different strains of cocoa.
I learned that cocoa (like coffee) is a seed of a fruit, not a bean!
It does seem like that's the bulk of where the poor treatment is. Unfortunately, an amazing 40% of cocoa comes from there..
www.xanga.com /rmyung/541281679/since-i-read-the-books.html   (785 words)

  
 Cocoa information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
North America > United States > Florida > Localities > C > Cocoa Beach > Travel and Tourism > Lodging > Hotels and Motels">Regional >...
It is filled with sweet, slimy pulp called 'bava de cacao' in South America, enclosing 30 to 50 large almond-like seeds (beans) that are fairly soft and pinkish or purplish in color.
Slavery has commonly been used in its production: see Cocoa Protocol for an effort to end this practice.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Cocoa   (1323 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Mushroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
For other uses of the word "mushroom", see Mushroom (disambiguation).
In a much broader sense, mushroom is applied to any visible fungus, or especially the fruiting body of any fungus, with the mycelium usually being hidden under bark, ground, rotted wood, leaves, etc. The technical term for the spore-producing structure of "true" mushrooms is the basidiocarp.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mushroom   (978 words)

  
 MediaWiki:Disambiguationstext - CoCoAWiki
They should link to the appropriate topic instead.
A page is treated as disambiguation if it is linked from $1.
This page was last modified 19:12, 19 June 2005.
cocoa.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de /wiki?title=MediaWiki:Disambiguationstext&redirect=no   (45 words)

  
 Caffeine glossary, news, and popular videos
Caffeine (sometimes called guaranine when found in guarana, mateine when found in mate, and theine when found in tea) is a xanthine alkaloid found in the leaves and beans of the coffee tree, in tea, yerba mate, guarana berries, and in small quantities in cocoa, the kola nut and the Yaupon holly.
In plants, caffeine acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kills many insects feeding upon them.
We consume caffeine in coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, some soft drinks, and...
www.weightlossfriends.com /gloss/caffeine   (343 words)

  
 NIB
NeXT Interface Builder, the.nib file extension is used for stored objects in Cocoa, Apple's Mac OS X API.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
www.measuroo.com /Acr-N/NIB.php   (274 words)

  
 CoCoA - OneLook Dictionary Search
COCOA : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
Cocoa : Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
Cocoa : Hormel Glossary of Kitchen and Food Terms [home, info]
www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=CoCoA   (301 words)

  
 User talk:Redbug - Wikitravel
First, check out the naming conventions about disambiguation: Naples, FL should be Naples (Florida) (I will move it in a second).
Finally, when you create a new article, can you put something like "Cocoa Beach is in Florida" as the very first line?
When the rest of us go to edit the page, or when users read the page, they won't necessarily know where it is.
wikitravel.org /en/User_talk:Redbug   (448 words)

  
 CocoaDev: DeleteOnceRestoreOnce
The purpose of this wiki is to contain useful information for Cocoa developers.
The more ways we have of describing a problem, the easier it is for other terminology newbies to find it in a search.
Think of it as something like the wikipedia disambiguation pages.
www.cocoadev.com /index.pl?DeleteOnceRestoreOnce   (727 words)

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