Chocolates contain theobromine, a substance that is derived
from the cacao plant.
Not exact matches
As you can see
from the title of this blog post / recipe, «dark chocolate tart with cranberry glaze» is not a
plant (well, except
cacao does come
from a
plant, so maybe this tart is a
plant?
Chocolate comes
from a
plant known as the cocoa tree, or Theobroma
cacao.
White chocolate originates
from the cocoa (
cacao)
plant, but it is not «chocolate.»
It's full of monounsaturated fats
from the macnuts and healthy
plant - based saturated fats
from the coconut and
cacao.
Both
cacao and cocoa come
from the same
cacao plant that all chocolate comes
from.
Plant scientists
from the United States, Britain, and Latin America have teamed up with chocolate manufacturers to plot counterattacks, such as introducing benign fungi to displace the bad ones and
planting cacao between taller coffee trees that supply fungi - stopping shade.
The team first grew
cacao plants from sterile seeds in sterile chambers so that they had no resident fungi in their leaves.
«We discovered both by culturing the microbes
from the leaves and also by directly sequencing fungal DNA
from plant tissue, that one of the most common fungi on the
cacao seedlings was their protector, Colletotricum tropicale.
In addition, the leaves of the seedlings grown with leaf litter
from healthy
cacao plants showed only half of the damage sustained by
plants grown with mixed - leaf litter
from the forest floor.
Then they divided the baby
plants into groups, placing dead leaves
from healthy
cacao plants in one set of pots, mixed leaves
from the forest floor in another set and no leaves in the third set, giving different sets of microbes the first chance to land on and colonize the «virgin» leaves of the young
plants.
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Cacao, known as the Food of the Gods by the Aztecs, comes
from a
plant native to Costa Rica (where it was once used as local currency).
Cacao is the
plant where chocolate comes
from.