How Is Chocolate Made? - How Is It Made?

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KidsHOW IS IT MADE?

How Is Chocolate Made?

by Grace Hansen

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Copyright © 2018 by Abdo Consulting Group, Inc. International copyrights reserved in all countries. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

Printed in the United States of America, North Mankato, Minnesota.

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Photo Credits: Alamy, AP Images, iStock, Shutterstock

Production Contributors: Teddy Borth, Jennie Forsberg, Grace Hansen

Design Contributors: Dorothy Toth, Laura Mitchell

Publisher’s Cataloging in Publication Data

Names: Hansen, Grace, author.

Title: How is chocolate made? / by Grace Hansen.

Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Abdo Kids, 2018 | Series: How is it made? |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016962398 | ISBN 9781532100451 (lib. bdg.) |

ISBN 9781532101144 (ebook) | ISBN 9781532101694 (Read-to-me ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Chocolate--Juvenile literature. | Chocolate processing--Juvenile

literature.

Classification: DDC 664/.5--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016962398

Cacao Tree Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chocolate Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Ready to Ship! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

More Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Abdo Kids Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Table of Contents

4

Cacao Tree Farms

Most cacao beans are

grown in Africa . They

grow on cacao trees .

Africa

5

6

Cacao trees grow large

pods . Inside the pods are 30

to 40 seeds . These seeds are

called cacao beans .

7

8

The beans are a pale color .

They are dried in the sun . This

turns them brown . The beans

are very bitter . They must go

through a process that changes

their flavor .

9

10

Chocolate Factory

The cacao beans are sent from

farm to manufacturer . Here, they

are roasted . Large ovens heat the

beans to nearly 300 degrees F

(149 °C) . The beans roast for up

to two hours .

11

12

After the beans are roasted,

they must be winnowed .

This process separates the

shells from the nibs .

13

14

The nibs are ground into

a paste . The paste is bitter .

It does not taste very good!

15

16

The manufacturer adds

ingredients like sugar and

vanilla . This sweetens the

paste . Milk is added to make

milk chocolate .

17

18

The sweet mixture is sent

through rollers . This creates

a smooth texture . It also

brings out the flavors .

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20

Ready to Ship!

The chocolate is heated and

cooled several times . This

makes it look shiny . It is now

ready to be poured into molds .

It is cooled, packaged, and

shipped to stores!

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• It takes about 400 cacao beans to make 1 pound (0 .5 kg)

of chocolate .

• About 70% of cacao is grown in West Africa .

• A cacao tree must be 4 or 5 years old before

it can grow its first beans .

More Facts

23

Glossary

bitter – having a sharp, bad taste that is not sour or salty .

nib – chocolate in its purest form before anything else is added .

pod – grows from cacao trees and contains the beans that

chocolate is made from .

winnow – to sift through and separate the needed parts

from the unneeded parts .

24

Index

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HHK0451Abdo Kids Code:

Africa 4

cacao beans 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

cacao tree 4, 6

dry 8

farm 10

manufacturer 10, 16

milk 16

nibs 12, 14

package 20

paste 14, 16

roast 10, 12

roller 18

store 20

sugar 16

sun 8

vanilla 16

winnow 12

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