hours of drying at 70℃ and 81℃, the sphericity started to
decrease before tempering. The sphericity at 70℃ and
81℃ approaches almost the same value from two hours
of drying. This might be as a result of isotropic
shrinkage at high temperature. For the cocoa bean
without seed coat, the change in sphericity was not
constant throughout the drying as shown in Tables 5 and
6, but ranges from 0.53 to 0.62 at drying temperature of
55℃, while it ranged from 0.60 to 0.64 at drying
temperature of 70℃. The cut test performed for the
dried cocoa revealed 92% deep brown kernel, 7.4%
purple-brown kernel and 0.6% purple kernel. However,
the cocoa bean dried without the seed coat always shatters
when force is applied during cutting. This is as a result of
lack of seed coat which holds the cleaved cotyledon
together.