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518  Reply to This  Replies to This Discussion  This is a pretty
controversial area right now and most raw chocolate makers are
making their chocolate by reconstituting "raw" cocoa powder and
"raw" cocoa powder into chocolate. I know of no one making
raw chocolate from the bean right now due to the food born
pathogen concerns as you're skipping the pathogen-killing
roasting step.   Nat Bletter, PhD Chocolate R&D Madre Chocolate
What do you mean by "raw'" cocoa powder?  My understanding of
the process of making cocoa powder is that the beans are roasted
and crushed into paste before being pressed into cake and then
ground into cocoa powder.  If this is the case, then technically
cocoa powder isn't raw either.   That doesn't even take into
account the alkalization process that cocoa powder goes through.
I would love to understand this better.  It seems as though the
"raw" move