Why Does Chocolate Taste Like Coffee?

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Coffee beans and cocoa beans aren't closely related, but their flavors can often be very similar. How can that be?

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Reason #1 Both coffee beans and cocoa beans grow in the same region called the bean belt.

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Reason #2 Cocoa and coffee beans also go through a very similar production process: fermenting, drying and roasting.

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Reason #3 Antioxidants taste bitter and both beans contain a lot of them.

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Reason #4 Caffeine is found in both cocoa beans and coffee beans and tastes bitter.

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