COCOA-BEANS WASHING METHOD FOR IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF COCOA-PRODUCTS MANUFACTURED FROM SUCH BEANS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A23G1/00 A23G1/02 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to methods for impurities removal from cocoa-beans, free fatty acids content decrease in cocoa butter of cocoa beans or both. The methods are implemented using a solution for preliminary washing which is placed into contact with cocoa-beans. Additionally, one describes cocoa-products manufactured by the said methods and systems for the said methods implementation with cocoa-beans. The method for impurities removal from cocoa-beans involves placing fermented brown cocoa-beans in contact with a solution for preliminary washing, the said fermented brown cocoa-beans removal from the solution for preliminary washing and the said preliminarily washed cocoa-beans processing with conversion into ground cocoa where ground cocoa manufactured from the said preliminarily washed cocoa beans has decreased metals content, decreased mycotoxins and/or free fatty acids content in comparison with ground cocoa manufactured from fermented brown cocoa-beans not placed in contact with the solution for preliminary washing.

EFFECT: invention ensures improvement of the quality of cocoa-beans manufactured from raw cocoa-beans.

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