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>Others might disagree, but I think cocoa (chocolate) is not paleo while
>carob is.  One difference is that cocoa is made from the bean (with a lot
>of processing), and carob is made from the pod (just grinding it up).
>And the pod could be eaten without further processing, if need be.
>Carob also can be eaten without additional sweetening, which chocolate
>cannot be--it is entirely too bitter by itself

I am eating raw cocoa beans and they taste very delicious to me when i need
them and horribly bitter when i don't.The supplier Orkos diffusion sale them
to the instinctos clients in. Europe.
They are good freshly extracted from the fruit or dry.
Carob pods are delicious too.
Jean-claude