1. Chocolate production

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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