Chocolate production

Chocolate production starts with harvesting

cocoa beans in a forest Cocoa beans come from tropical evergreen cocoa

trees (Theobroma Cocoa) growing in Central and South America, West Africa and Southeast Asia

Harvesting Cocoa & Cocoa processing

Cocoa needs to be harvested manually The beans will be selected and placed in piles Then these cocoa beans are ready to be

shipped to the manufacturer for mass production.

Cocoa beans grow in pods The pods are about the size of a football The pods are green When they‘re ripe they change colour to

orange Workers must use machetes because

machines could damage trees and their flowers

Picking and opening the Pods

Cocoa beans are placed on trays and heated

by the sun Workers must move them from time to time During the fermenting the beans turn brown

Fermenting the cocoa seeds

After fermenting the cocoa seeds must be

dried Then workers put them into sacks and

transport them to the chocolate manufacturers

Drying the cocoa seeds

Machines change the cocoa beans into cocoa

butter and chocolate The dried and roasted cocoa beans are melted

into chocolate liquor Then manufactures add sugar, milk or any

flavour Then machines wrap and pack the chocolates

and they are ready to transport

Manufacturing Chocolate

Šárka Vilímková Alena Horáková

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