🍫 THE STORY OF COCOA 🍫

WHERE IS COCOA GROWN?

• Tropical places in South America
• Australia
• West Africa
• Ghana
• Asia
• Countries 10 degrees each way of the equator
• West Africa
• Oceania

How is cocoa made?

Cocoa beans are grown on trees and are in a pod. The pods have small seeds in called to cocoa beans. The cocoa beans need to be kept in a high temperature and plenty of water.

HOW IS IT PROCESSED?

• They clean and bake the cocoa beans to allow the flavours to come out
• Then use a winnowing machine to remove the shell and leave you with the nibs.
• The nibs are milled to make cocoa liquor and usually the manufacturers deal with more than 1 type of beans so they blend the together to make the right formula
• The liquor is the pressed into the cocoa butter leaving a solid called a press make.

HOW IS IT PROCESSED?

• The process take 2 directions. The press cake is crumbled to make cocoa powder
• To the liquor and the cocoa butter are added to sugar, milk, emulsifying agents.
• The mixture then goes through the rollers until it forms a smooth paste.
• The chocolate is then tempered then put into moulds and wrapped up to sell

WHERE IS CHOCOLATE SOLD?

• Cadbury World
• Markets
• Shopping centres
• Newspaper shops
• Supermarkets
• Sweet shops

FACTS

• Hershey's produce over 8 million pieces of chocolate
• White chocolate is technically not chocolate as it doesn't have any cocoa butter or liquor.
• It takes 400 cocoa beans to make 1 pound of chocolate.
• The inventor of chocolate chip cookies went to nestle and in exchange asked for a lifetime supply of chocolate.

FACTS

• The worlds largest chocolate bar weighs over 5792 pounds
• September 13th is national chocolate day
• Chocolate has over 600 flavour yet red wine has only 200
• There are such thing as chocolate coated crisps
• Chocolate was consumed as a liquid not a solid for 90%?of its history.

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