How
Chocolate is Made?
Have we wondered how we get chocolate from?
Well this time we will enter the amazing world of chocolate so we can
understand exactly we are eating. Chocolate starts a tree called cacao tree.
This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in place such as South
America, Africa, and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size
of a small pine apple. In side the fruits are the tree’s seeds. They are also
known as coco beans.
Next, the beans are fermented for about a week,
dried in the sun. After that they are shipped to the chocolate maker. The
chocolate maker starts processing by roasting the beans to bring out the
flavour. Different beans from different places have different qualities and
flavour. So they are often shorted and blended to produce a distinctive mix.
The next process is winnowing. The roasted
beans are winnowed to remove the meat nib of the cacao bean from its shell.
Then the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are grounded to make it liquid. The
liquid is called chocolate liquor. It tastes bitter. All seeds contain some
amount of fat and cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half
fat, which is why they ground nibs from liquid. It is pure bitter chocolate.
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