| 21. | When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain in 1502, he took cocoa beans from America.
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| 22. | Green & AMP; Black's says it has a similar policy when buying cocoa beans.
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| 23. | While cocoa beans are perishable, they can be held in storage for several years.
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| 24. | Eighty percent of the cocoa bean crop is grown by farmers with 10-acre plots.
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| 25. | The Ulua Valley was renowned in pre-Columbian America for the quality of its cocoa beans.
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| 26. | After a week of baking, my love affair with the cocoa bean has been renewed.
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| 27. | Arrivals figures track the amount of cocoa beans shipped to ports by producers for export.
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| 28. | Throughout Mesoamerica where they are native, cocoa beans are used for a variety of foods.
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| 29. | It also insulated them from price fluctuations caused by political unrest in cocoa bean-producing countries.
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| 30. | Samoan cocoa beans are of very high quality and used in fine New Zealand chocolates.
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