Vocabulary
Sour tasting (such as lemons)
What is tart?
Cover the beans and put into bins for days
What is to become sweeter?
Grows on trees
Where does chocolate come from?
West Africa
What is where 70% of the world's crop?
400 coco beans
To change chemically
What is ferment?
Roast the beans in giant ovens
What is making the flavor stronger?
Seeds that are football shaped cacao pods
Where does chocolate start its life?
Inside of the coco bean
What is the nib?
A farmer must wait four to five years
What is how long for a cacao tree to produce its first beans?
A soft, squishy substance found inside fruit or pods
What is pulp?
Mix in sugar, vanilla, milk, and cocoa butter
What is to make it taste sweet?
2,000 pods each year
How much does a cacao tree produce?
No milk powder in the recipe
What is dark chocolate?
There are an estimated 1.5 million cocoa farms located in
What is West Africa?
The act of eating something
What is consumption?
Chocolate goes through a machine called a conch for a few hours or days
What is a smoother texture and sweeter taste?
30 cacao beans
How many beans are in each pod?
SIV
What is screen out twigs, stones, and other debris?
Farmers lose, on average, 30 percent of their crop each year
What is because the trees are so delicate?
The way something feels, such as soft, hard, rough, or smooth
What is texture?
Heated and cooled several times
What is the chocolate is ready for consumption?
What is the white pulp?
Winnower
What is a shell removing machine?
Theobroma Cacao Tree, meaning “food of the gods"
What is the tree that produces cocoa beans?