Chang Zhaowen took out a smooth jade plaque from the Ice Spirit Bag, the origin of this jade plaque is not small, it is the prize he won in the Dark Sky Bazaar and the Guqi PK duel before-Mirror Appreciation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The mirror has a strong ability to identify all raw materials that have not been processed, but this function is a bit of a chicken for Chang Zhaowen, who has returned to human society, and he knows the performance of the crops produced by his own farm, and the sellers of the items he goes out to purchase will also provide detailed product descriptions.

It's been so long since I've been back, Chang Zhaowen has almost forgotten that he still has this treasure in his hand, and the mirror has been kept in the depths of the Ice Spirit Bag, and he hasn't taken it out once, let alone used it.

But now, in the face of the unknown materials found in the forest of words, the mirror can finally play its role.

Picked up a handful of about a dozen white beans on the ground, put the pile of beans into a pile with his hands, Chang Zhaowen directly inserted the mirror into the pile of beans, and waited for about 2 seconds, and a few rows of small characters finally appeared on the smooth surface of the mirror.

[Product name]: Cocoa

[Type]: Plant

[Rarity]: Low

[Attributes]: None

[Origin]: The fruit of the cocoa tree in the Forest of Words

[Use]: After processing, it can be used to make chocolate and drinks

Isn't it? This white bean is actually the cocoa bean, which has become the world's three most important cash crops along with coffee and tea?!

Chang Zhaowen's eyes widened in astonishment, he grabbed a handful of white beans and brought them to his face, looking and smelling, not to mention, after sniffing carefully, it seemed that there was really a faint aroma of cocoa with a slightly sour smell.

However, as far as he knows, cocoa is a tropical plant that is mostly found in the hot and humid Amazon rainforest, equatorial countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire in Africa, and probably only in tropical countries such as Malaysia in Asia.

In addition, although he had never seen fresh cocoa beans before, he had also eaten a lot of cocoa drinks and chocolate, and in his impression, cocoa beans should be the same as coffee beans, all of them were reddish-brown or coffee-colored?

Fortunately, in modern society, if you don't know something, you can directly check the Internet to find answers.

After some searching and combing, Chang Zhaowen's doubts were also easily solved - the common coffee-colored cocoa beans are processed products, and the fresh cocoa beans are indeed white, to be precise, the cocoa beans at this time are covered by a layer of white pulp, which has no edible value.

But its presence is also extremely necessary, because this white flesh will gradually turn purple or lilac when exposed to the air, and then it will begin to heat up and ferment, during this fermentation process, the temperature of the cocoa bean will rise to 52 degrees Celsius, and the enzymes present in the cocoa bean will be activated under the catalysis of high temperature. More critically, fermentation is a simple process in which the sugars contained in cocoa beans are converted into acids, mainly lactic acid and acetic acid. Without fermentation, raw cacao beans will not have the flavor of chocolate.

After 3 to 9 days of continuous fermentation, the bitter taste of the fresh cocoa beans is fully removed, and the cocoa beans gradually transform into a beautiful dark brown color with a rich chocolate aroma, at which point the cocoa beans truly become the raw material for processing chocolate and cocoa powder.

Unexpectedly, there are so many doorways in this cocoa bean, and now these raw fruits in his hand are still quite a long way from being made into desserts, and the fermentation of cocoa beans alone takes 3 to 9 days!

Time is of the essence and action must be taken now!

As soon as he said it, he broke the shell of these yellow fruits one by one, took out all the white cocoa beans inside, and piled them on a spread bamboo mat.

The white flesh will ferment and heat up on its own, and there is no need to add additional catalytic fermentation strains like winemaking, but only need to pile these white beans together and let their surface area fully touch, so that the temperature will rise faster, the fermentation process will be smoother, and the time required will be shortened accordingly.

After all, the competition is only a week away, and if the cocoa beans have not been fermented by then, they will not be useful.

Sora also took the initiative to help, unless he was in front of customers in the store, his hands would take on the shape of claws at other times, and the pointed claws were like an extremely sharp knife. The yellow pods of cocoa are very hard, and it is really not that convenient to split without tools.

But the empty claws only need to be lightly touched, and they don't even need to touch the flesh directly, and with a "snap", the yellow pod will automatically crack, revealing the white cocoa beans inside.

"Is it okay to pile them up like this?" Sora helped stack the cacao beans on top of each other, and curiously grabbed a white cocoa bean and opened his mouth to try the taste.

"Don't eat it!" Chang Zhaowen yelled, waved his big hand, and directly knocked down the cocoa beans in his empty hand.

"It's just a bean from you, what a fierce one!" The empty air exploded in an instant, and all the hairs on the tail stood up, making the tail several times larger in size, and it looked a bit like a squirrel's tail.

It's funny, I didn't expect dogs and cats to be the same as a pair of virtues that blow up at a point.

Chang Zhaowen smiled and stroked his empty tail, but his tone was very serious: "You can't eat cocoa!

"Nonsense-" Kongkong's eyes widened, obviously unconvinced, "the human physique is so weak, they can eat it, why can't I, a powerful dog demon, eat it?"

Chang Zhaowen really didn't have any alarmism, he patiently explained to Kongkong: "Dog owners know that they can't give chocolate to dogs, because dogs will die if they eat them, in fact, because chocolate contains a chemical component called methylxanthine, dogs are different from primates, they can't metabolize this ingredient themselves, once they accidentally eat chocolate, especially dark chocolate with more cocoa, they will vomit, diarrhea, cramps, shock and even death!" And cocoa beans are the main ingredient for making chocolate, and the methylxanthines contained in it are much thicker than chocolate!"

"Damn, it's so terrifying!" Kongkong's face turned pale, he stuck out his tongue, and subconsciously took a few steps back to keep a safe distance from the cocoa beans on the ground, "Since methylxanthines are so dangerous, why don't humans remove this ingredient from cocoa beans?"

Chang Zhaowen smiled and shook his head: "You don't understand this, humans can metabolize methylxanthines, and for humans, methylxanthines have the effect of diuresis, excitating the heart muscle, and helping vasodilation, and more importantly, methylxanthines can make people feel uplifted, relieve fatigue and feel happy and relaxed!"

Wild cocoa, nutritious raspberries, and the best giant bee honey, any of which can give a dessert a soul, and what a wonderful taste it would be to use all three in the same dessert?