Chocolate Powder

Cocoa powder

Cocoa powder, often simply cocoa, is an aromatic powder derived from the seeds of the Theobroma cacao tree. It is produced by roasting and grinding the seeds, referred to as cocoa beans, and then removing most of the cocoa butter from the resulting paste. Usually sold as a fine powder, cocoa is widely used in baking and beverages, notably hot cocoa, because of its intense chocolate flavor without most of the fat found in cocoa beans. The two main types are natural cocoa powder and Dutch-processed cocoa powder, both of which are available in various fat percentages.

Chocolate

Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans. It can be a liquid, solid, or paste. It is eaten on its own and used to flavor other foods.

Powder

A powder is a dry solid composed of many very fine particles that may flow freely when shaken or tilted. Powders are a special sub-class of granular materials, although the terms powder and granular are sometimes used to distinguish separate classes of material. In particular, powders refer to those granular materials that have the finer grain sizes, and that therefore have a greater tendency to form clumps when flowing. Granulars refer to the coarser granular materials that do not tend to form clumps except when wet.

Chocolate (color)

The color chocolate or cocoa brown is a shade of brown that resembles chocolate. At right is displayed the color traditionally called chocolate.

chocolate

Noun

1. A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
2. A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

Adjective

1. Made of or containing chocolate.
2. Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.

powder

Noun

1. The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.

Verb

1. To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
2. To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.