Chocolate start with a tree called the cacao tree. This tree grow in equatorial regions, especially in places such as South Africa, Africa and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size of a small pine apple. Inside the fruit are the tree seeds, also known as a cacao beans.
The beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun and then shipped to the chocolate maker. The chocolate maker starts by roasting the beans to bring out the flavour. Different beans from different places have different qualities and flavour, and so they are often sorted and blanded to produce distinctive mix. Next, the roasted beans are winnowed. Winnowing removes the meat nib of the cacao beans from it shell. Then the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are ground amount of fat, and cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half fat, which is why the ground nibs from liquid. It's pure bitter chocolate.
(Taken From : Bahasa Inggris SMA dan MA, 2008)
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