#Your Complete Guide To Chocolate Flavors Infographic Sean Seidell graphic designer and flavor-visualizer has made an infographic about just about all of the world's most wonderful things--cheese whiskey coffee beer. The next logical step obviously was chocolate. Seidell spent three weeks delving into the complicated world of single-origin cacao using information culled from Chocolate Science and Technology by Emmanuel Afoakwa a professor of food science at the University of Ghana. The resulting infographic is a broad overview of the four varieties of cacao--Criollo Forastero their hybrid Trinitario and Nacional--and the countries that produce them. A Peruvian Criollo for instance has a fruity winey somewhat bitter flavor profile whereas a Criollo from Venezuela adds a cocoa nutty flavor into the mix of fruity and bitter. For a bright fruity floral flavor you should go with a Sri lankan Trinitario whereas a Forastero from Sà £o Tomã  and Prã  ncipe will overwhelm you with a whirlwind of fruity bitter spicy cocoa and grassy flavors. Yes grassy. It's apparently a much more common chocolate flavor than you'd expect showing up in the Dominican republic's Criollo Forastero and Ecuador's Arriba Nacional as well. If you're not quite that adventurous stick with Forastero beans from Ghana. Cocoa and nutty flavors no funny business. And now that you've brushed up on your cacao flavor profiles put down the Snickers and go get yourself some real chocolate. a

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