In-house cocoa flour RMs instead of CRMs were prepared and checked for its homogeneity and stability. Due to CRMs limited availability in terms of matrices of concern and high production cost when making in-house cocoa flour, RMs are alternatively used for daily quality control in the laboratory. The analysis method for reliable checking of homogeneity and stability of cadmium content in the in...

Flavor is one of the most essential indicators for determining quality cocoa beans, especially fine flavor cocoa. The volatile compound in beans affect mechanism emergence. Therefore, this study aimed to identify aromatic and non-aromatic groups as FFCs indicator. It was conducted at Indonesian Coffee Cocoa Research Institute, Jember, East Java, Indonesia. Furthermore, genetic material used con...

Cocoa beans are the principal raw material of chocolate manufacture. The beans are subject to a microbial fermentation as the first stage in chocolate production. The microbial ecology of bean fermentation (Forastero and Trinitario cultivars) was investigated at three commercial fermentaries in East Java, Indonesia by determining the populations of individual species at 12-h intervals throughou...

Abstract Cocoa bean shell is a waste from the chocolate processing industry that has not been used optimally and still contains 5.78% polyphenols which potential as source of natural antioxidant compounds. The processed in with light, medium high roasting, based on desired product. purpose this study was to determine polyphenol content activity dry fermented cocoa shells result best degree roas...

Pesticides are a significant component of the modern agricultural technology that has been widely adopted across the globe to control pests, diseases, weeds and other plant pathogens, in an effort to reduce or eliminate yield losses and maintain high product quality. Although pesticides are said to be toxic and exposes farmers to risk due to the hazardous effects of these chemicals, pesticide u...

Cleaning and drying cocoa beans are generally done manually by farmers. The manual cleaning process takes a long time, the pulp reduction is not optimal. In contrast, using sunlight time when it in rainy season. This causes to be moldy have low sale value. equipment made factory, two machines separately hardly affordable Based on these problems, microcontroller-based bean dryer (de pulper) was ...

Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping for bean traits and the number of ovules per ovary was carried out in cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) using three test-cross progenies derived from crosses between a lower Amazon Forastero male parent (Catongo) and three female parents: one upper Amazon Forastero (IMC78) and two Trinitario (DR1 and S52). RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism), microsate...