Cocoa 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.

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.

cocoa powder

Noun

1. A powder derived from ground cocoa solids, which is used to make the drink of cocoa, various chocolate products, also used as an ingredient in baking.
2. A form of brown gunpowder, also known as brown powder.