Talk:Theobroma cacao

message: The cacao article badly needs more text on the production and cultivation of cacao. I have added today a paragraph on the expansion and smallholder nature of cacao production and I'd be happy to write a few more paragraphs, but have not much experience and would appreciate advice on how to best proceed. I am a cacao research scientist, have lived in cacao producing countries many years, and think I know cacao pretty well Kamayav (talk) 21:10, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cacao cultivation and production

message: I think most of these doubts are now covered in the text JeremyCherfas (talk) 10:57, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the pod is the fruit, the cocoa bean is the seed of the fruit.  Rsheptak 22:38, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doubts! 

message: In response to the Theobromine question, there are some concrete differences between Theobromine and Caffeine, but they are part of the same family of stimulants and behave similarly. However, Theobromine is not by any means the most interesting or dominant stimulant in cacao--Phenylethylamine (PEA) and Psuedo-Anadamides are present in greater quantities, and both have more interesting pshcyoactive properties.
[—Seneca 14:10, 6 April 2006—from page history ☸ Moilleadóir 08:00, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are also the catechins and flavanoids.  And probably a bunch of other stuff yet to be discovered.Tmangray 02:54, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Active chemicals 

message: Article needs a section on toxicity. Some sources:
*See: http://naturalhygienesociety.org/review/0501/chocolate.html
*See: http://www.living-foods.com/articles/toxiccacao.html 
*Book: Poison with a Capital C, Agatha M Thrash MD, 2000, 61pp, American Vegan Society
*Book: Sugar Blues by William Dufty (Mass Paperback), Section on Cacao.
*Book: Caffeine Blues: Wake Up to the Hidden Dangers of America's #1 Drug by Stephen Snehan Cherniske
*Book: The Truth About Caffeine by Marina Kushner
*Book: Welcome to the Dance: Caffeine Allergy - A Masked Cerebral Allergy and Progressive Toxic Dementia, Trafford Publishing, 2005
Zanze123 (talk) 22:07, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Toxicity

message: End of first paragraph of Taxonomy and Nomenclature says "Both were in the ancient system into the family Sterculiaceae." 
What does this sentence mean? I don't consider any modern taxonomic names to be "ancient" considering that the accepted starting point of botanical classification is 1753, with Linneaus' Species Plantarum. Does the author mean both were originally considered part of Sterculiaceae?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.112.232.147 (talk) 22:48, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxonomy and Nomenclature question 

message: Something is wrong with statistics.  Argentina, far from being the tenth producer, does not produce just a single pound of cacao.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.212.147.85 (talk) 21:21, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics

message: The painting under 'Cultivation' shows NOT a cacao tree, but a papaya plant (a large herb). This picture needs to be removed (but I don't know how to do that).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scarabaeoid (talk • contribs) 02:33, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: , thanks .  I just removed  from the Mythology section. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 04:23, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect image 

message: The diagrams show in the article are kidney bean shaped and not cocoa bean shaped so this statement is confusing. (The maps in the linked article are CCby4 so could be added to this page to disambiguate confusion. 194.207.86.26 (talk) 12:10, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "bean-shaped area"