Chocolates story

Where does chocolate come from? Actually, it DOES grow on trees. It all starts with a small tropical tree, the Theobroma cacao. About 70% of the world’s cacao is grown in Africa.

A cacao tree can produce close to two thousand pods per year. There is a sticky white pulp and about 30 or 40 seeds inside the pods. The seeds are very bitter. 

Next they are roasted and cleaned and the outside of them taken away. The inside is crushed and made into a creamy paste which is added to sugar, vanilla, milk and cocoa butter. Finally its put into moulds, wrapped and packaged, sent to the shops and eaten by us! 

So that is chocolates story very briefly.