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9. Cacao seeds are not chocolate.
If someone gave you a cacao seed to try, we’re willing to bet you would spit it out.  The seeds are not sweet and, in fact, have quite a bitter taste.

10. It takes a lot of seeds to make a bar.
So how many of these bitter seeds does it take to make the yummy chocolate we know and love? Four cacao seeds make one ounce of milk chocolate and twelve seeds make one ounce of dark chocolate.