(The Conversation) — A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of ... to transform ingredients such as oats and sunflower seeds into substitutes for cocoa mass and butter.

It is dried and the seeds can be fermented to make cocoa butter ... Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

and cocoa is used to describe the powder made from ground cacao beans. Cacao beans are actually seeds taken from pod-like ...