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Question by  jax9999 (131)

Is carob the same thing as chocolate?

Are the plants related?

 
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Answer by  helen20 (354)

Although sometimes used as a substitute for chocolate, carob is not the same as chocolate. Chocolate comes from cacao beans while carob is made from the carob tree fruit.

 
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Answer by  Amber40 (24961)

Carob is not the same thing as chocolate. It is a type of flowering evergreen shrub or tree from the pea family called Fabaceae. Theobroma cacao, the tree chocolate comes from, is also a evergreen but is of the Sterculiaceae family.

 
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