The aim of this study was to evaluate several cocoa sources to obtain a rich phenol extract for use as an ingredient in the food industry. Two types of phenolic extracts, complete and purified, from different cocoa sources (beans, nibs, liquor, and cocoa powder) were investigated. UPLC-MS/MS was used to identify and quantify the phenolic composition of the extracts, and the Folin-Ciocalteu and ...

BACKGROUND Cocoa, mixed with other food ingredients, intake can have beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease (CVD) biomarkers. We compared the effects of 4 cocoa cream products on some of these biomarkers. METHODS AND FINDINGS In this multi-centered, randomized, controlled, double-blind, parallel trial, volunteers (n = 113; age range: 43-65 years) who were pre-hypertensive, stage-1 hyper...

The soils of tropical tasar plantation fields in general are sloppy and are primarily deficient of nutrition due to top soil erosion and constant leaf productivity exploitation to rear tasar silk insect, Antheraea mylitta Drury. The rainfed field of Terminalia tomentosa (W&A) plantation has been evaluated for soil fortification with green mulching through legumes, Sun hemp (Crotalaria juncea), ...

Abstrak. Kakao merupakan salah satu jenis tumbuhan perkebunan yang terus mendapat perhatian untuk dikembangkan. juga komoditi mempunyai prospek cukup cerah menambah pendapatan para petani kakao di Indonesia khususnya Provinsi Aceh, demikian pula dengan kabupaten Bireuen. Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan gambaran tindakan keuangan Kabupaten. Teknik pengambilan sampel dilakukan metode slo...

Abstrak. Kakao termasuk hasil perkebunan yang berguna dalam ekonomi indonesia, tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui pengaruh tingkat kematangan dan konsentrasi pupuk green tonik terhadap pertumbuhan bibit kakao. Penelitian dilangsungkan di kebun percobaan, Laboratorium Teknologi Benih, Ilmu Gulma universitas syiah kuala Banda Aceh, dimulai November 2021 – Februari 2022. menggunakan...

In West Africa, low adoption of agricultural innovations by farmers has been partly due to the complexity of the innovation structure or new knowledge beyond the farmers’ socio-economic adaptive capacities. Different attempts have been made to improve cocoa beans quality in Nigeria among which was the recommendation of ‘improved cultural practices’ or ‘best known practices’ (ICMP). This had rec...

Tree species composition was important for carbon storage within the same climate range. To quantify the dynamics of ecosystem carbon allocation as affected by different tree species, we measured the above- and below-ground biomass accumulation in 22 years, as well as the tissue carbon concentrations of trees in Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation and Michelia macclurei plantation. Results indic...

The medicinal use of cocoa has a long history dating back almost five hundred years when Hernán Cortés's first experienced the drink in Mesoamerica. Doctors in Europe recommended the beverage to patients in the 1700s, and later American physicians followed suit and prescribed the drink in early America--ca. 1800s. This article delineates the historic trajectory of cocoa consumption, the linkage...

We may not be able to make you love reading, but programming the iphone user experience developing and designing cocoa touch applications will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will...