Abstract
IN the preparation of cacao beans for marketing, it is the normal practice to heap the fresh beans in boxes, so that their covering of mucilaginous pulp can be broken down through the action of yeasts and acetic acid bacteria. The technique has been described by Knapp1. During the fermentation the beans are killed. They change in texture. Various chemical constituents are altered, destroyed, synthesized, exuded and absorbed. The process is exceedingly complex and little understood.
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FORSYTH, W. A Method for Studying the Chemistry of Cacao Fermentation. Nature 164, 25–26 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164025a0
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