For chocolate lovers, a photo from Guantanamo, East

Photographer's Note

Only a few days left for Cuban pictures and what to show? According to the TE motto, I would like to show something that was very interesting for me. I have seen the plantations of coffee, cashew nuts, tea, many spices, like pepper or vanilla, but for the first time I was on the plantation of cacao. On the main picture you see the fruits of cacao. Its seeds, cacao beans, are used to make cacao mass, cacao powder, and chocolate. The flowers are produced in clusters directly on the trunk and older branches; this is known as cauliflory. The fruits can be red, yellow and green.
In the workshop picture you can see how it looks inside. On the other, the man displaying the local products. The balls of the cacao powder, cacao butter in small wooden containers, the beans. You can see also Cucurucho - a local delicacy of the city of Baracoa. Wrapped in a cone-shaped palm leaf, it is a mix of coconut, sugar and other ingredients such as orange, guava and pineapple.
I hope you find it interesting.

Big beta picture

Local products
Inside the cacao fruit.

snunney, jhm, ikeharel, gervaso, alvaraalto, rychem, shevchenko, danos, Tue, ChrisJ, PaulVDV has marked this note useful

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dkmurphys (79209) 2016-05-03 1:07

Hi Malgo,
Never seen this plant for real, it's quite interesting. Nice colors, good idea for this detail.

Daniel

snunney (130967) 2016-05-03 2:12

Hello Malgo,
The cacao fruit I saw in India were green, I assumed they were not yet ripe, but reading your note, they may just have been a different variety. Fine close-up on this plant with some beautiful colour contrasts between the warm toned fruits and the green surroundings. Very nice ambient light.

jhm (211738) 2016-05-03 2:26

Hello Malgo,

I eat gladly chocolate, but only the black.
Your picture shows us perfectly the plants and the perfect note.
Colours and sharpness are perfect taken.
Very well done, TFS.

Have a nice day,
John.

gervaso (28431) 2016-05-03 4:17

Hello, Malgo!

When I was in Cuba I didn't see any plantation of cacao, but I didn't go to that region. In Brazil we have a lot of them in the Northeast of the country, in the state of Bahia. The strong colors of the fruits make them stand out beautifuly in the composition! Wonderful job!

Fis2 (171937) 2016-05-03 5:58

Witaj Malgosiu!
BArdzo ciekawe te owoce, ladnie pokazane.
Kadr i kolory robia wrazenie.
Pozdrawiam.
Krzysztof

Nicou (193814) 2016-05-03 5:59

Hello

quelle baies toutes rouges superbe ce cacao qui va faire du chocolat pour les gourmand quelle image intéressante de voir ces fruits superbe.
Bravo t amitié
Nicou

Silvio1953 (222925) 2016-05-03 6:41

Ciao cara Malgo, questa l'hai dedicata proprio a me che penso di essere il più incallito cioccolataro di TE, gran bella foto, splendida nitidezza, ottimi dettagli, magnifica luce e bei colori naturali, brava, un abbraccio Silvio

Sergiom (117241) 2016-05-03 12:43

Ciao Malgo,

J'ai le nez beaucoup plus salé que sucré, mais lorsque je vois une aussi belle plante je reste ébahi par sa beauté et sa couleur. très beau plan serré plein de beaux détails.

Amicalement

Serge

alvaraalto (42804) 2016-05-03 14:38

Hello Malgo,
In your TE contributions is always, I dare say more than any other, an excellent combination of picture and note. Your lovely pictures are mostly a necessary illustration with your personal and interesting notes. I’m always looking forward for a new combination.
Groet Rob

carlo62 (81265) 2016-05-03 15:09

Ciao Malgo
ho sempre visto questi frutti nelle foto o nei documentari, mai visti nel loro habitat naturale, credo che sia una bella esperienza.
Saluti
Carlo

rychem (72187) 2016-05-03 20:39

Doskonaly pomysl na prezentacje, a osobiscie znam niewiele osob nie lubiacych czekolady, bardzo to ciekawe, jak ludzie doszli do tego, że te owoce można przerobic na sama slodkośc, bardzo fajne zestawienie zdjec, rowniez tych w WS
pozdrawiam Ryszard

shevchenko (20560) 2016-05-03 22:29

Hi Malgforzata,

My country especially East Malaysia is popular growing with this plant, I remember that my teacher brought a Cocao fruit and show it to us in class room. We have a famous drink named 'Milo' that produced by Coaca. Good frame, interesting composition, thanks for sharing.

abmdsudi (95869) 2016-05-03 22:40

Hi Malgorzata
Beautiful shot from Cuba, this pods have saved a lot of lives... Can anyone imagine life without chocolate? that supposedly becoming an expensive luxury within the few years and in the meantime deforestation continues..
Well done.
Best wishes

danos (110407) 2016-05-04 1:03

Witaj MAlgo,
nice the close up view of the red hard fruitσ of coffee tree.The brilliant falling light enhance the clarity as the details of the image.

Regards,Danos

Tue (93436) 2016-05-04 1:08

Hello Malgorzata,
An interesting photo and note about cacao and chocolate. I don't think many people would recognise the source of chocolate in these fruits, at least I wouldn't. Nice and colourful photo with a fine lighting.
Lars

ikeharel (114605) 2016-05-04 1:37

Bright red Cacao fruits, Malgo.
It is not so possible to make the connection from the red color to the brown outcome as we see the processed cacao in bags or cans at the shops.
magnificent photo and unusual.
Best regards,
Ike

ChrisJ (172436) 2016-05-04 16:46

Hello, Malgo!

Lately there has been a trend for less sugar and more cocoa in chocolate with a dark variety of up to 70% rather than the usual 30% in milk chocolate. Nice to see where the cocoa comes from. Tfs!

berek (50518) 2016-05-04 20:09

Dear Malgorzata,
What all this beautiful red berries cocoa that will make chocolate for any greedy interesting picture to see these wonderful fruits.
Greetings.
Burak

PaulVDV (63460) 2016-05-04 23:35

Hello Malgo,
I have seen pictures of the red cacao fruit before but this is the first time that I get a view of the inside. Very strange.
Living in Belgium, of course I'm a chocolate lover :)
Beautiful sharp views from close by.
Why only a few days left to post pictures of Cuba?
Best regards, Paul