Cocoa Bean

**Cocoa Bean** ka ba mɛ buon ye cocoa (/ˈkoʊ.koʊ/) bɛɛ cacao (/kəˈkaʊ/), la anɛ Kooko biili kanɛ ka ba pin' ka di mi'ig ka li yadigi kʋdʋg. Kooko tiis la ni ka ti paamɛt laad banɛ ka nɔk Kooko maal nɛ di kpaam dinɛ ka buon ye cocoa butter la. Kooko tiis la pɛ'ɛsnɛ  Amazon rainforest ni. Dinɛ kpɛlim an' chocolate nyan'ar nɛ  dama nɛ diib banɛ wʋsa ka cocoa gɛndig la.

Kooko tiig la kena wʋʋ yʋʋma tusa anu nɛ kɔbistan banɛ gaad la  (5,300 )dɔlisid  Mayo-Chinchipe buudi kanɛ bɛ  South America la ka di yaan paae Mesoamerica.  Pre-Hispanic dim da dɛŋim mɔrnɛ kooko maanɛ ba malima , ka di biis la nwenɛ ligidi bɛɛ linɛ ka ba na nyaŋi nɔki da' siel  Mesoamerica sʋ'ʋlʋm. Di kae zin'ig fann ka kooko tiis la siakida. Ninsbilis teŋin wʋʋ West Africa sʋŋid nɛ kooko kuob kɔbiga pʋʋgin  pisnii nɛ ayinnɛ dunia la wʋsa zʋʋd namin. Kooko mɔr buudi atan. Ba anɛ, Forastero, Criollo, nɛ Trinitario, ka Forastero la ka ba kuod bɛdigʋ.

Yʋʋm 2024 la ni, kooko kuob dunia la wʋsa daa anɛ  5.8 million tonnes, Ivory Coast daa mɔrnɛ  kɔbiga pʋʋgin pistan nɛ anii (38%) ka Ghana dɔl nɛ Indonesia. Kooko biIili, kooko kpaam, nɛ  kooko zɔ'ɔm la ba kuosidi li nɛ da'asin, ka  London dim nini nɛ bɛ West Africa dim kooko nɛ New York dinɛ an' Southeast Asian dim kooko la ni. Zin'is bɛdigʋ mukidnɛ ye ba sʋŋ ka Kooko nɔbig.La'am nɛ Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa (SWISSCO),  German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO), nɛ Belgium's Beyond Chocolate. Dunia wʋsa kooko sʋŋid nɛ kɔbiga pʋʋgin pisi nɛ awai chocolate yisibin yʋʋm 2016 la. Di nar ka ba kpɛlim sɛɛt Kooko tiis ka di sʋŋ ka Kooko kuob lalig. Tiis banɛ ka ba waan'ad bɛɛ kʋʋd West Africa la mɔrnɛ daan'ʋŋ pamm na tisid cocoa kuob. Kooko sʋŋid nɛ ligidi zin'igin wʋʋ   Nigeria dim la bɔɔd laad banɛ ka ba nɔk kooko maal siem la. Kooko nɔbignɛ  kɔbiga pʋʋgin atan pɛ'ɛs yʋʋm 2008 la ni.

Cocoa mɔr laad nam wʋʋ flavanols, procyanidins, nɛ flavonoids, nɛ flavanol-rich chocolate nɛ Kooko la'ad la sieba mɔr sieli di ni ka di na tʋne  sie zidʋtʋm. Di mɛ lɛn mɔr  theobromine nɛ caffeine biela.  Cocoa tiig  la nɔkidnɛ wʋʋ yʋma anu nɔbigid tituaa ka na tʋne yuugi paae yʋma kɔbiga.

## Siniŋir
Kooko anɛ cacao buudi, din tune an ye di yinɛ pianʋk coco zug. Di yinɛ *kakaw(a) ni*, amaa pianʋk la yinɛ Nahuatl bɛɛ Mixe-Zoquean buudi pianad ni la anɛ nɔŋgbannwaar bɛ buudi pianad nam ni.

Kooko biili da pinili yinɛ 19th century la ni; 18th century la saŋa ba da buoni banɛ *chocolate nuts*, *cocoa nuts bɛɛ* kooko.

## Labakʋda
Kooko tiig anɛ dinɛ yi Amazon rainforest ni. Ba da mɔri li kul yin nwɛnɛ yʋma tusa anu nɛ kɔbistan banɛ gaad la saŋa bɛ equatorial South America. Ba da mɔri li yinɛ Santa Ana-La Florida (SALF) site dinɛ yʋʋm bɛ Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe Province)Ya-tun Nyaaŋ pʋ lal nɛ Mayo-Chinchipe, ka naan pinil bɛ Mesoamerica.

Nwɛnnɛ yʋma tusa atan (3,000) banɛ gaad  la, di anɛ bʋnkanɛ ka kʋdʋmin dim da diti li dɔlisid Yucatán, laan nɛ Maya dim buudi nam ni, ka fʋ yaa gɔsi ,lɛb nyaaŋ nwɛnɛ Olmeca civilization dinɛ ka ba da maan ka di an siigin malima. Di mɛ da nɔbʋgʋ bɛ foothills of Andes dinɛ bɛ Amazon region la nɛd the Orinoco basins dinɛ bɛ South America, nwɛnɛ Colombia nɛ Venezuela. Mɔɔgʋn kooko da nɔbʋgʋd anina. Di da na zuoe kʋdʋmin la gaad nananna: ka tiisi yʋʋn nɔbʋg la zug kɛ ka ti pʋ lɛnm nyɛt ban da an siem ka naan paae Spanish naa.

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