How to roast roasted cocoa beans and raw cocoa beans

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for roasting roasted cacao beans and raw cacao beans having a high total polyphenol content and reduced bitterness and the like. SOLUTION: Raw cacao beans are roasted by heating them with microwaves for a predetermined time so that the surface temperature of the raw cacao beans is in the range of 50 ° C. or higher and 90 ° C. or lower in a state where the pressure is controlled to be lower than normal pressure. Obtain roasted cocoa beans. The heating time by microwave heating is preferably in the range of 5 minutes or more and 10 minutes or less. [Selection diagram] Fig. 1