Yesterday I was able to visit a cocoa plantation. Cocoa is the fruit that chocolate comes from. I was able to see the whole chocolate making process from start to finish. The tour guide explained everything that they do at the plantation and showed us how they make the chocolate. This plantation was a small operation that does not produce chocolate for export but it was still fun to see.
Cocoa in a tree. The guide said that the cocoa fruit never falls even when it is rotten. It just stays up in the tree until an animal or person knocks it down.
Another kind of cocoa tree.
Poison Dart Frog!
Fermenting the cocoa beans to get out the flavor.
After the beans are dried they are roasted to bring out the flavors.
Then they are crushed so the shell is separated from the fruit.
They make a paste and add caramelized sugar to sweeten it.
And then we ate it on organic bananas!
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