Chocolate vs. Cocoa — What's the Difference?

Chocolate is a food product made from roasted and ground cacao pods, that is available as a liquid, solid or paste, on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civilization (19th-11th century BCE), and the majority of Mesoamerican people - including the Maya and Aztecs - made chocolate beverages.The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop the flavor.

A powder made from cacao seeds after they have been fermented, roasted, shelled, ground, and freed of most of their fat.

Fermented, roasted, shelled, and ground cacao seeds, often combined with a sweetener or flavoring agent.

See hot chocolate.

A beverage made by mixing water or milk with chocolate.

A moderate brown to reddish brown.

A small, chocolate-covered candy with a hard or soft center.

The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

A grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.

Made or flavored with chocolate

(uncountable) A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.

Of a grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

(countable) A serving of this drink.

A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

A light to medium brown colour.

A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

Alternative spelling of coco.

(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera) as its fruit. It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree. It is widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations as an ornamental tree.

A black person; (uncountable) blackness.

A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

Made of or containing chocolate.

A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.

Powder of ground roasted cocao beans with most of the fat removed

(slang) Black relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.

To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.

A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

A food made from roasted ground cacao beans

A medium to dark brown color