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100
These were the first people known to have made chocolate.
Who were the Mayans and Aztecs?
100
These tiny insects play a major role in pollinating and fertilizing the cacao trees.
What is a midge?
100
The continent on which 70% of the world's chocolate is grown.
What is Africa?
100
Members of this organization focus on improving cocoa farm family incomes and productivity, conserving the tropical ecosystem, improving the quality of life for farm families (especially in terms of education and health), and ensuring that cocoa is grown responsibly.
What is the World Cocoa Foundation?
100
A strong desire for the taste and feel of chocolate in one's mouth.
What is a craving for chocolate?
200
This was the preferred form of enjoying chocolate 2,000 years ago.
What is the beverage form?
200
The cacao seeds, the part from which the chocolate is actually made, are harvested from this part of the cacao tree.
What is the cacao pod?
200
Cacao trees only grow within a limited proximity to this global line of demarcation (hint: it separates the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere).
What is the equator.
200
This is a system for reporting and action, provided via a thorough, transparent view of labor conditions on cocoa farms intended to ensure that cocoa is grown using responsible labor practices.
What is certification?
200
According to this US President, "The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain."
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
This ancient group of Mesoamerican people used cocoa as a form of currency.
Who were the Aztecs?
300
Leaves from this fruit are used in the fermenting process of the cacao seeds.
What is the banana?
300
This South American country is considered the Flavor Capital of the chocolate world.
What is Equator?
300
This is the area of the world that produces the greatest amount of cocoa beans.
What is the Ivory Coast of West Africa?
300
A true connoisseur of chocolate in every single way.
What is a chocolatier?
400
The conquest of this North American country in 1521 lead to the introduction of cocoa to the Europeans.
What is Mexico?
400
In this part of processing the chocolate heat is introduced to ensure that the chocolate liquor is evenly blended.
What is conching?
400
Beans from this country have a spiciness in their flavor.
What is Trinidad?
400
This is typically the trend in chocolate sales during times of recession.
What is an increase in sales?
400
Cacao (pronounced Ka-Kow).
What is the rightful name of the chocolate bean?
500
In this European country chocolate was a state monopoly that could be consumed only by members of the royal court.
What is France?
500
This process stabilizes the cocoa butter crystals so they are more uniform in size and gives the chocolate a bright luster.
What is tempering?
500
Beans from this country contain subtle flavors of pineapple.
What is Jamaica?
500
About 47% of the total US imports of cocoa beans come from this African country?
What is Cote d’Ivoire?
500
Cocoa powder and cocoa butter.
What are the two bi-products of the processed cacao bean?