[ti:Cacao Is More Than Just Chocolate]
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[00:00.04]Oded Brenner has a great job.
[00:03.40]He makes chocolate.
[00:06.20]In the 1990s, he co-created an international chocolate company
[00:11.64]called Max Brenner Chocolate.
[00:15.80]His businesses included a 650-square-meter store
[00:20.96]on Broadway in New York City.
[00:25.24]Then in 2012, Brenner left that business.
[00:29.88]A few years later, he began exploring a different side of chocolate.
[00:36.28]In 2015, during a trip to Jamaica,
[00:40.40]he developed a love and excitement for the fruit
[00:44.76]that produces chocolate: cacao.
[00:49.48]The Jamaican people taught him a lot about cacao
[00:54.12]-- namely, it is more than just chocolate.
[00:59.08]Brenner saw Jamaican people making juice,
[01:02.88]liquor, and flour from the cacao fruit.
[01:07.00]And they used the whole fruit – not just the beans.
[01:13.52]Brenner told the Associated Press
[01:16.20]that although he had worked with chocolate for 20 years,
[01:20.56]he knew little about cacao.
[01:24.08]“It is the most unknown fruit
[01:26.16]behind the most known fruit,” Brenner said.
[01:30.44]While the fruit might have been unknown to him,
[01:33.84]it is not unknown to the people of Jamaica
[01:37.08]and other countries like Ecuador.
[01:41.92]The Ecuadorian people also taught Brenner how to use cacao.
[01:48.20]In Ecuador, he saw people drink cacao water
[01:51.88]and eat the dried fruit of the pods.
[01:56.20]You can eat the whole fruit, he learned.
[01:59.48]But in making traditional chocolate, he added,
[02:03.56]“all of the other parts of the fruit are wasted.”
[02:08.20]The fruit is a little sweet and a little sour.
[02:13.56]The cacao water is described as refreshing.
[02:18.56]The seed inside is the cacao bean.
[02:22.52]This is the part that is processed to make chocolate.
[02:27.72]With his new business and his new knowledge,
[02:31.52]Brenner said he wants to tell both sides of the chocolate story.
[02:38.68]So, he has created new products
[02:41.52]that celebrate the traditional side of chocolate-making
[02:46.00]and the natural taste of the cacao fruit.
[02:51.00]Health experts have long noted the possible good effects
[02:55.84]that chocolate can have on health.
[02:59.12]The T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health
[03:02.56]says on its website that the dark chocolate produced
[03:07.00]from cacao has many necessary nutrients.
[03:11.92]These include iron, copper, magnesium,
[03:17.40]zinc, phosphorus, and substances called flavanols.
[03:25.44]Brenner said the unsweetened fruit has other nutrients as well.
[03:31.56]Cacao is high in antioxidants.
[03:34.88]And the water is full of natural chemicals called electrolytes.
[03:42.16]These are substances needed in the body’s fluids
[03:46.20]to control important processes
[03:49.56]including how your body uses vitamins and minerals
[03:54.04]and removes waste.
[03:57.36]In addition to health, Brenner said
[04:00.08]that the cacao he uses for his products
[04:03.16]is farmed in a way that is not harmful to the environment.
[04:07.80]And it is also fair to the farmers.
[04:12.52]I’m Anna Matteo. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM