Chocolate production

Harvesting Cocoa & Cocoa processing 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

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.

Picking and opening the Pods 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

Fermenting the cocoa seeds 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

Drying the cocoa seeds After fermenting the cocoa seeds must be dried Then workers put them into sacks and transport them to the chocolate manufacturers

Manufacturing Chocolate 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

Thank you for watching  Šárka Vilímková Alena Horáková

Resources http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medium_close_up_image_of_David_Kebu_Jnr_holding_cocoa_beans_drying_in_the_sun._(10703178735).jpg http://coolmind131.deviantart.com/journal/ http://www.tentation-chocolat.eu/tag/feve/ http://www.10campaign.com/issues/ http://docedieta.com/saude/14-alimentos-para-reduzir-o-colesterol/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate http://www.sfu.ca/geog351fall03/groups-webpages/gp8/prod/prod.html