Vocabulary
The tree from which we get chocolate.
What is Cacao?
The first use of chocolate by people in Mexico and Central America.
What is 200?
The equator is the location where you can grow this.
What are Cacao trees?
After cacao pods are opened, this is the next step in the process.
What is fermentation?
Machines that use animal, wind, or steam power to grind things.
What are mills?
Columbus brings cacao beans back to Europe.
What is 1502?
Cacao trees can grow to over this tall.
What is 40 feet?
Once the beans are dry, they move on to this step.
What is shipping to factories?
Large farms with many workers.
What are plantations?
The cocoa press is invented.
What is 1828?
It can take this long to grow cacao pods.
What is 4 - 5 years?
After the chocolate is formed into molds, what is the next step in the chocolate process?
What is the removal of cocoa butter?
The process of smoothing a chocolate mixture.
What is conching?
Milton Hershey establishes the Hershey Chocolate Company.
What is 1894?
Only this many out of ten to twenty flowers will become a pod.
What is 1?
This step is referred to as conching.
What is mixing the final chocolate mixture?
A natural changing process that occurs in many foods and plants.
What is fermentation?
The world consumes over 3 million metric tons of chocolate.
What is 2007?
Workers use this tool to chop up the cacao pods.
What is a machete?
What is the final step in the process?
What is shipping to consumers?