When we think about cacao, we almost always associate it with chocolate. The pod is the fruit of the cacao tree. The big seeds inside the pod are the cocoa beans. But the fruit is more than just the outer shell and the inner beans. There's also a pulp that surrounds the beans.

The pulp is thin and it's typically removed and thrown away to get access to the beans which are used to make the luscious chocolate we dream about.

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