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- Made from the beans of Cacao tree

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- Close to equator
- warm all year round

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- Cacao crop
- Mainly in Africa， 2/3
- Other tropical countries

- End products
- manufactured and consumed
in cooler parts
- will spoil in warm conditions

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- Planted in the shade of banana       tree

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-Cacao tree
- 7.6 meters long
- Large leaves, small white  or pink flowers
- fruits in all season of the year

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- Cacao pod
- flowers produce the fruit
- 15~20 centimetres
- 30~40 each tree

- Ripe pods  (ready to pick up)
- red, yellow, green

- Each pods
- 30 - 40 seeds

- Seed
- surround by the soft whitish pulp
- become the cacao bean that used for making chocolate

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- pods are ripe
- Six months after the fruit is formed
- Each pod matures at a different time
- Harvesting throughout the year

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- Cacao trees very delicate
- Carefully to cut
- Cut the pods  with machete
(Machete - Large shape knife)

- workers carry the pods to the farm
( farm - a site for begin processing of the beans here )

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( Fermentation - Chemical change )

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- The farm worker
- Cut open the pods and take out beans by hand
- Lay out the beans in the sun and cover with banana leaves

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- 2-8 days
- remove a lot of bitterness
-prevents the beans from sprouting or growing

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- Sorted the beans accroding size and quality
- Bagged in large sacks
- Sacks sent to the chocolate manufacturers around the world

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- Cleaned by putting beans through sieves ( filters)

- The worker
- Roast the clean beans in large revolving cylinders
- 250 degrees Fahrenheit and higher

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- It brings out the flavor
- It hardens the bean and the shell

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- Beans
- separated from the shell and broken into nibs ( small pieces)

- The worker
- finely grind the nibs become a thick liquid
(  Thick liquid - Chocolate liquor )

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- Chocolate liquor
- the main ingredient of all chocolate products
- not contain alcohol

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- Chocolate makers
- blend many different kinds of chocolate liquor
- make different  flavors of chocolate

- The manufactures ( producer)
- add cocoa butter, sugar, milk , solids, other flavorings -
- make final products

- pack and ship to customers around the world