Cacao
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Theobroma cacao |
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Cacao is best known for being the plant from which cocoa and chocolate are made. Cacao has been cultivated since before Christ in Africa, as well as western africa, Java, India, and Sri Lanka; various places which are tropical regions.[1]
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Anatomy
The trunk is thick and the height is about 12m. The leaves are long oval, and leather, the end of the leaf is sharp and the middle of leaf is long and slander as well. The floewr is white and the diameter is about 1.5 cm. The calyx is purple inclining to red. The petal splits up with 5, stamen are 5, pistil is only one, and the ovary are 5.[2]
The flower grows when Cacao is 4~5 years. If the Cacao is 12~50 years, then many flowers might be attached, but only 1 fruit bears among 200~400 flowers. the fluid is long oval, and the size is under 10cm.[3]
It has 40~60 seeds. It doesn't have an albumen, instead it has a big seed leaf. the seeds have about 2% of theobromin and a few caffeine, and 50% fats as well. If after take the seeds out in the fruit which is ripe, and ferment in the tub which is made by a wood, the seeds will be changed to reddish brown, and the smell is peculiar. It will be Cacao bean After wash with water, and dry the seeds. If you roast the seeds, so you made the power, then it is cacao paste, and if you put sugars and milk with add spicery for hardenning, it is chocolate. The Cocoa is made by cacao paste which is removed the fat by compression, and the fat which is derived from the Cacao paste is called Cacao butter. Cacao butter is pellucid yellow, and it is used for a margarin, a pomade, and medical supplies because it has peculiar fragrance, as well as flavor.[4]
Advantages and disadvantages of Cacao
1) Diet
Most people think the Cacao is the factor of the fatness, but if you eat only a few Cacao before or after take a meal, the Cacao's sugars control your sence of hunger or feeling of fullness. A chocolate has 520kcal per Cacao 100g, actually the factor of fatness is only 20% among whole Cacao. Cacao's ingredient of fat, the Cacao butter doensn't have synergism of blood cholesterol, also because of it is hard to absorb, you don't have to worry about the fatness by excess of calories; the factor of the fatness does not come from the Cacao. [5]
2) prevention of diabetes and cancer
arteriosclerosis, diabetes, or cancer's one of the factors is noxious matter which is called active oxygen. People can't live without air, but the air's 1% which is absorbed in body is called active oxygen which is serious coniine(toxicity). Since the active oxygen's power of cohesion with other matters is too strong, so when active oxygen combines with enzymes, active oxygen disturbs metabolism of cells. the great efficient element which inhibits the activity of active oxygen is called polyphenol. Cacao's main ingredient, Cacao coffee bean has plenty of natural Cacao polypheno, so it works great to prevent from disease. [6]
3) constipation's withdrawal of a case
If a person doesn't have enough fiber, since amount of the excrement is discrease, it is easy to get the constipation, and cancel of the large intestine's risk of outbreak rises. Cacao has abundant fibers, so it let the remnant of food moves fast in the large intestine; it cures the constipation.[7]
(4) A recovery of fatigue
If you eat a Cacao, Cacao's sugar promotes the recovry of fatigue, it makes the blood-sugar level becomes to be normal, and the sugar make the brain will be active, as the sugar provides the nutrition to the brain as well. Cacao's incense also great to recover the fatigue. [8]
5) Love = Cacao
Cacao has phenylethylamine. when the people are fall in love the brain secrets a chemical substance, the chemicals are the same as the phenylethylamine. This element makes the heart to palpipate. According to some research, after part from his/her lover, many people desire to eat some Cacaos. In ancient time, the peerage used as "The madicine which helps the life of love. The reason is if they eat the Cacao, their feeling were happy.[9]
6) Study of the test
I think you heard this sentence a lot of time "If you eat a Cacao, the test's result will be nice.". The reason that the students who will take the SAT eat chocolate before taking SAT is for the good result. Cacao's phenylethylamine settle people's minds down, so it makes people's power of concentration be better,and digestion of carboghydrate, as well as help the ability of brain, as speeds absorption up. [10]
7) Youthfulness
I have a marvelous information, which is if you eat the Cacao, you can prevent from the aging because Cacao has polyphenol which has ability to prevent from the aging. Cacao has more polyphenol than green tea, or grape wine. [11]
8) Beauty culture of the skin
Cocoa oil helps to maintain the skin's moisture, as well as it is effective to make smooth skin. [12]
9) Prevention of a heart trouble
After 6 hours from you ate Cacao, plaque deposits' activity and the phenomenon of cohesion decreases. Polyphenol drops the ability of low density-cholesterol, as well as it controls an activity of the plaque deposit. Cacao has flavonoid(composite), its function is restraint of the clot of blood's phenomenon. Also It has to maintain the healthy heart, and smooth circulation of blood. This element is called flavonoid. [13]
10) prevention-effect of The stomach and intestines' disease
Polyphenol's 12 elements eliminate the active oxygen which is formed Helicobacter pylori, it is known as the factor of gastritis, and a gastric ulcer, as well as we can prevent from many stomach and intestines' disease. According to a experimentm, after they transplanted carcinogen to the mouse's stomach and intestine, and when they medicated the extract of Cacao again, the effect of the treatment was great. [14]
11) The effect of to prevent the cold, and control the allergy
Cacao polyphenol's adjustment of immunity is approved, prevention of cold, and allergy's effect of control as well. Also Cacao polyphenol has flavonoid, its one of the functions is inhibitive action of myocardial infarction or a cardiac disorder. [15]
12) Prevention of a decayed tooth
The factor of getting a decayed tooth is not because of eating sugar-contained food. The factor is that the bacteria is easy to proliferate, and this situation continues. Chocolate has Cacao polyphenol which prevent from decayed teeth. [16]
13) help to be longevity
Professor of epidemiology, Dr. Lee who works in Harvard university of madicine discovered that If people eat the Cacao, then they will live about 1 year longer than the people who don't eat Cacao. The experimeters are 7841 graduates of Harvard. [17]
14) Boost people's depression
Cacao bean's one of the ingredients is caffein, very a few caffein encourages people's feeling, but you don't have to worry about the caffein, because the caffein is only 1/20 ~ 1/60 of a cup of coffee, thougt kids eat the Cacao's caffein, it is fine.[18]
15) hydrolysis of alcohol
muscovado, taurine, and catechin hydrolyze the alcohol, as well as prevetion of drinking alcohol. So it works after&before drinking alcohol. [19]
Ecology
Almost all of Cacaos grow in tropical areas of Africa.[20] Now Indonesia's Cacao farms are about 970,000 hectares, and Indonesia produces Cacaos about 450,000 tons yearly. 70% of the products are produced from Sumatra island, and others are produced from Jawa island. Cacao has two kinds which are blue and red Cacao. which are producing in Jember. We can recognize the ripe Cacao by the color. Red Cacao is yellow, and its taste is sour and sweet, and the blue Cacao's color is the same but is sweet-savor. If you swing the ripe Cacao, you can hear dull thud, the sound comes from swinging the seeds in Cacao. People can pick the ripe Cacao up anytime, but most farmers pick ripe Cacaos up between May and June, and they usually pick up On October and November; twice. When you cut the Cacao in half, you can see the white seeds which are clung each other, and if you eat those, you can taste sour and taste.[21]
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