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Cacao powder is the powder of raw beans, before any processing.

Cocoa is post processing, in the way to make chocolate.

It might be best for you to purchase both and taste. Cocoa tastes like chocolate, Cacao is kinda earthy and bitter. They cannot be substituted for each other in recipes.

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Cacao beans are 54% fat, I don't think you'll get a powder if you just grind them, you'd get some sort of mush.

In my country there isn't even a thing called cocoa, it's all cacao with a k, kakao. Kakao beans, kakao powder etc. There is something called cocholate powder which is kakao powder mixed with milk powder and sugar, but I don't think that's what you are talking about.

I might buy some raw kakao/cacao beans to see what happens if I crush them.

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