149. interior of Cocoa Pod

ABEKRO, COTE D’IVOIRE, 2009. Everyone who lives in a cocoa village knows how to open a pod. In this picture, our driver has opened the pod and you see the ~40 seeds which are covered in a wonderfully sweet-sour placental tissue.


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