From Cacao to Chocolate
By: Ethan
Introduction
Do you know the yummy gooey chocolate that you get to eat read to find out how it gets to you every day.
Farm
The use a machete to cut down the pods from the cacao tree farmers grow cacao trees in african forest the cocoa pod grows in all degrees of ripeness at any location you cut open the cocoa pod then you will find 30 to 40 beans then they driey the beans in the sun after the beans are roasted this proses spectate the shell from the nib finely the farmer sends it to the chocolate factory.
Factory
Here the beans are roasted in a large oven then they heat the beans to nearly 300 degrees F and 149 C). Next they take the shell off the inside is called the nibs the manufacturer adds the ingredients like sugar and vanilla milk is added to make milk chocolate.The sweet mixture is sent through the rollers. Then they make the product!
Store
The chocolate is heated and cooled several times. Then they send it to the store
Fun Facts
It takes 400 cacao beans to make a pound of chocolate. each cocoa tree products appronimxly 2500 beans.
Conclusion
I hope you learned a lot about chocolate and how it is made I hope you love this book