Cacao may refer to:
Plants
- Theobroma cacao, a tropical evergreen tree
- Cocoa bean, the seed from the tree used to make chocolate
- Cacao paste, ground cacao beans. The mass is melted and separated into:
- Cocoa butter, a pale, yellow, edible fat; and
- Cocoa solids, the dark, bitter mass that contains most of cacao's notable phytochemicals, including caffeine and theobromine.
Places
- Cacao, French Guiana
- Cacao, Carolina, Puerto Rico
- Cacao, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico
- Cacao Alto, Patillas, Puerto Rico
- Cacao Bajo, Patillas, Puerto Rico
- Hacienda Cacao, Yucatán, Mexico, tropical rainforest
Other uses
- Maria Cacao, a mountain goddess in the Philippines
See also
- Chocolate
- Cacau (disambiguation)
- Cocoa (disambiguation)
- Coca (disambiguation)
- Kakao, a Korean conglomerate named after the cacao seed