Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Hello,

In literacy we have been focusing on writing explanations, you may have already seen my one about the tea bag explanation, I have done another one, for younger audiences, on where chocolate comes from.  Hope You enjoy!

Making chocolate in a complex routine that needs to be finished to perfection.  If one the steps goes wrong, it will have a snowball effect on the other steps.  Chocolate is made for the benefit of humans to eat and make profit on.

The first step to making a perfect bar of chocolate is breaking the beans and splitting the insides into groups.

Once extracted from the pod the beans are covered in leaves for 5-7 days.  After this you leave them in the sun for 6 days. 

Next, they get moved to the collection center, where they are weighed and checked for quality before being placed into bags and of to the cocoa factory to be processed.

At the cocoa factory the beans are sorted, cleaned, dried and broken into nibs.  These are roasted into liquid mass, called cocoa liquid.  This is then compressed into cocoa butter and cocoa powder.

Now, it can be proceeded into making the chocolate bar, the ingredients include:

Cocoa liquor, cocoa powder, cocoa butter, sugar and milk.  It now goes into a kneading process called conching for a smooth texture and the snap that you get when you bite into it.  Other ingredients are added to make the different flavors before being delivered in either liquid form, blocks, or drops to the customers of the world.

Here is a diagram I made to go with it:





I hope you enjoyed my explanation.  The next time you bite into a bar of chocolate will you know how it is made?  Reply in the comments!