Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Extinct Cocoa Plant in Peru, Not Extinct Anymore

Most people don't know that there are in fact many breeds of cocoa plants producing different flavours of chocolate.  The best way to think about cocoa is to compare it to apples, we all know that there are several varieties of apples, with different uses and different flavours.  This, thought to be lost, strain of cocoa was devastated by disease in 1916, but was rediscovered recently in an isolated farm in Peru.

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