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There are three main varieties of cocoa, although 18 different species are known. Here are the three main varieties:

Creole or native.

Is the genuine cocoa and was named by the Spanish when they arrived to Mexico. It is grown in Peru, Venezuela (in Chuao primarily), Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Trinidad, Bolivia, Jamaica, Mexico, Grenada, and in the Caribbean, in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia. It is recognized for its high quality, with low tannin content, reserved for the manufacture of the finest chocolates. The tree is fragile and has a low production. The shell is fine grained, soft and slightly aromatic. This type of cocoa represents, at most, 10% of the world’s production. An example of native cocoa is Ocumare cocoa that comes from the Valley of Ocumare from the cost of Venezuela.

Forastero.

Original from the upper Amazon. It is a normal cocoa with higher tannin. It is the most commonly grown and comes from Africa mainly. The grain has a thick, strong and slightly aromatic cover. To neutralize its imperfections it requires intense roasting, from which the flavor and aroma of burning of most chocolates comes. Top producers use this type of grain in their mixtures, to give body and scope to the chocolate, but the acidity, balance and complexity of the best chocolate comes from creole cocoa.

Trinitary or Hybrid.

Most notably the Hybrid or Trinitary: is a cross between the creole and the forastero, although its quality is closer to the forastero one. As the name suggests, this type of cocoa is native of Trinidad where, after a terrible hurricane in 1727 almost all the plantations of the island where destroyed, and it came out as the result of a process of crossing. Thus, the robustness of this cocoa was inherited by the forastero type and it also has the delicate flavor of creole cocoa, and it is also mixed with other varieties. As an example we have the Superior Carenero, the Barlovento that comes from the east of ]Caracas, in the State of Miranda, Venezula.

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