Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Can, 23 oz

Hersheys Cocoa is the Best Cocoa its all I ever use!! Excellent price, I could not find it in any of the BIg stores , like Sams, Costco....But I found it on Amazon!!! Thank You !

Emperor Montezuma II ruled the Aztec Empire in Mexico from 1502 to 1520. According to Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes, Montezuma II told him in 1519 that "[unsweetened] cocoa is a divine drink that builds up resistance and fights fatigue. Drinking just one cup of this precious drink will allow a man to walk for a whole day without eating any food." In Montezuma's days, the cacao bean, which is really a seed and not a legume, grew only in Latin America. Today, more than 70% of the world's cacao beans are grown in western Africa. In Montezuma's days, the cacao bean was separated into cocoa powder, which was very highly prized, and cocoa butter, which was the waste product. Today, cocoa butter is very highly prized and in short supply because it is needed by the chocolate industry to feed the world's addiction to chocolate. Today, cocoa powder is in oversupply and in need of more buyers. Even before Montezuma's days, the Incas in Peru considered cocoa to be "the drink of the Gods," which explains why "Theobroma cacao," the modern scientific name for this plant, means "God" "drink" "cacao" in the Greek language. However, radiocarbon dating indicates that the Aztecs drank liquid unsweetened cocoa before the Incas. In Honduras, archaeologists uncovered elaborately designed bowls used by the Aztecs around 1600 BC to drink liquid unsweetened cocoa. Disadvantages of cocoa powder: Cancer-causing mycotoxins, inflammation-causing bacterial endotoxins, the toxic heavy metal, cadmium, and acrylamide, which is the slightly cancer-causing chemical produced when starch is baked or fried (but not produced when starch is boiled or steamed). Advantages of cocoa powder: Cocoa powder, even when unsweetened, tastes much better than all other health-promoting powders, including turmeric powder, olive leaf powder, matcha green tea powder, ginger powder, garlic powder, Korean red ginseng powder, astragalus powder, amalaki powder, globe artichoke powder, milk thistle seed powder, reishi mushroom powder, Agaricus blazei powder, fenugreek seed powder, etc.

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Ok this is not carried locally for me. The price is right and the add taste to food is delicious. Found out this is used to make Mocha coffee. I had mint and I have my Starbucks mint Mocha.😋 . It's a fine powder, blends easy into liquid or cookies dough mix. It also seems to settle my stomach so maybe there is a health benefit too.

I purchased this product. So glad I found this size. time to bake that chocolate Cake!

I've been using this cocoa for 45 years. Still the same great stuff. I use it for all "chocolate needs", and I have many, many daily chocolate needs. I use it in baked goods, frostings, pudding, and hot cocoa, and I mix it right into cold protein drinks. For the cocoa itself, FIVE stars. But this review is about the 23-ounce boxes as well as the cocoa inside them. For the package, TWO stars. Two and five does not average to four, but I didn't want it to look like I was rating the cocoa at three. Not enough dimensions in the Amazon ratings. The packaging leaves a lot to be desired. I'd prefer to leave it in the plastic container it comes in, but due to the glued-on paper seal, the glue of which does NOT come off even after repeated washings and scrubbing with Goo Gone and a kitchen scrubber, and the looseness of the top, this isn't feasible. The product is fully open to the air all around the fuzzy paper-coated rim, and the air here is coastal and very humid. I knew that the small boxes of cocoa were like this, but I felt sure that the bigger boxes, which the consumer might keep for a much longer period, would be more air-tight. And because this particular box is so large, it makes it easy to deform the plastic just by picking it up. This makes it very easy to have a terrible accident in which the box slips out of the hand, opens the lid on the way down, and explodes cocoa all over the floor. I would not buy these large boxes unless you are prepared to immediately move the product to smaller, more air-tight containers. Otherwise, highly recommend the cocoa. :)

Very hard to get in the stores. Little expensive but is the only one I use.

Thank for you prompt delivery.

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Remember this is Cacao and Hershey is an American brand, its not Cocoa as the UK market would view it. Cacao is the unsweetened version of cocoa, i.e. its more pure, has a slightly bitter taste rather than sweet like drinking chocolate. A little goes a long way though so bitterness can be minimised by using half the cacao than would be used as cocoa.

Love it.

It's Hershey's cocoa. They've been making the stuff forever, and they are very good at it.