Cocoa Powder in Bangladesh

There are many cocoa powders from different manufacturers are available in Bangladeshi market. The price of cocoa powder can varies based on brands, origin country, availability etc. factors.

We are selling different cocoa powders in different prices. You can order your favorite one from here and get the genuine product from your home.

What is Cocoa Powder?

Cocoa powder is a chocolate powder that is unsweetened and mostly used in bakery items. It helps to add chocolate flavor to the cake, dessert, or any kind of beverage item.

Cocoa powder is processed from cocoa beans and it has no added other ingredients. This powder comes from the leftover cocoa beans after making the cocoa butter.

However, this cocoa powder is highly used in baked items and people love the taste and smell of it with brownies, cakes, pudding, etc.

Cocoa powder comes from cocoa beans which are a fruit of tropical trees. This powder has two types of varieties dutch processed and natural.

However, Cocoa powder and chocolate are not the same. They both come from cocoa beans but cocoa powder is the purest form of cocoa beans with no additional sugar, fat, or any extra added ingredients. Cocoa powder has 10% to 15% cocoa fat or butter.

Moreover, this powder is a little bit acidic. It has a 5.3 to 5.8 pH level which helps to react with other ingredients and its own solubility. Natural cocoa powder looks a reddish color and light weighted formula that intensified the flavor.

On the other hand, Dutch-processed cocoa powder is a brown color and has a 6.8 to 8.1 pH level. This cocoa powder gives a mellow flavor and reduces antioxidant properties.

Uses of cocoa powder

The dutch processed cocoa powder is easily dissolved and melted. So it is highly used in chocolate drinks and ice creams.
In the baked item, the pure form of cocoa powder which is a little bit acidic is used. This acidic form of cocoa powder helps to activate all the ingredients that are used in the recipes.

To make candy, cocoa powder is highly used. Apart from this, cocoa powder tastes like chocolate, so it is used in cakes, muffins, brownies, etc.

However, there are lots of recipes made with the use of cocoa powder. In Bangladeshi food, to make various types of dessert items, we see the use of cocoa powder in Bangladesh.

So, if you would like to use this cocoa powder for your delicious food item, then you can get it from this online shop. You can check it out from us.

Benefits of cocoa powder

The use of cocoa powder is increasing and now almost 4.5 billion tons are consumed every day. Cocoa is a primary ingredient of chocolates. Now, the powdery form of cocoa is also processed in the market and is highly used in various food items.

However, there are lots of benefits of cocoa powder. The health benefits are given below:

• Improves immune system
• Lessens the side effects of radiotherapy
• Better muscle and nerve function
• Improves the cognitive health
• Healing wounds
• Reduces the risk of heart disease
• Reduces inflammation
• Helps to control weight loss
• Provides nutrition etc.

Recipes with cocoa powder

Cocoa powder provides intense flavor and rich texture to chocoholic recipes. Such as floorless and fudge chocolate cakes, muffins, and brownies. This powder is also used in making subtle coating on cakes and enhancing light booster of chocolate bread and muffins.

Then, in the recipe of chocolate marshmallows and double chocolate chip muffins, this cocoa powder is used. Nowadays, there are various kinds of chocolate drinks available in the market. To make various drinks including chocolate milk, cocoa powder is used.

Where to buy cocoa powder

Cocoa powder is found in almost all the grocery shops. You can get it from various online stores as well. FoodsArena is an online store where you can get the best quality cocoa powder.

We provide the best quality and genuine products to our clients and also give deliveries all over Bangladesh.

How to store it?

Cocoa powder can be stored for 2 years in an airtight container. You have to keep it cool, dry and dark. You should not store it in a refrigerator as it provides moisture which affects the texture of cocoa powder.