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Analyzing flavor of cacao varieties
New cacao specimens with one-of-a-kind flavors discovered in northern Peru could result in specialty chocolates marketed by geographical provenance as wine is, according to researchers with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and the Instituto de Cultivos Tropicales, San Martin, Peru.

The scientists are studying 342 cacao specimens collected from the Amazon River Basin to determine the different flavor traits. One of the samples, calle…