Finding New Life for Cacao Byproducts
With recipes for cacao waste chicha, sorbet & syrup from Ecuador’s Alejandra Espinoza.
On average, more than 70 percent of the cacao plant is wasted at its origins. With the global trade in cacao estimated at roughly $1 trillion dollars, that’s far from an insignificant amount of waste. While the seeds, or beans, are used in the chocolate making process, the rest of th…