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Makes you wonder if there's any way to "synthesize" whatever it is that makes cacao make cacao or something to the effect of the way various opioids and flavors
by Obscurity4340 3y ago
Makes you wonder if there's any way to "synthesize" whatever it is that makes cacao make cacao or something to the effect of the way various opioids and flavors are already synthesized en masse, although obviously in the opioid case we're probably not gonna get around having to grow poppies forever.
- kleton 3y agoOkra is vaguely related to cacao, and you can process the seeds to some sort of ersatz substance with similar flavor compounds, but it lacks the saturated fats with a melting point similar to human body temperature that makes chocolate interesting.
- soperj 3y agoSo just add bacon fat?
- Obscurity4340 3y ago> Shhhhhhh! — Nestlé/BigNesqwik
- chongli 3y agoHigh quality chocolate has a ton of different flavours in it. It’s extremely complex. Just like coffee, tea, wine, beer, vanilla, spirits, cheese, mushrooms (and so on; basically any luxury food). We can’t synthesize what makes these things taste good because it isn’t just one compound, it’s thousands. Even something very basic you can make at home, such as caramel, can’t be synthesized. From a very simple precursor (white sugar aka sucrose) you apply heat and the result is thousands of complex molecules. This is why caramel tastes good (like an actual food) but plain white sugar tastes pretty bad (because it’s just an ingredient).