Workers cut down pods
from cocoa trees, then split open the pods to remove the white or purple cocoa beans.
The tour starts with an amazing «chocolate shot», after which you'll be taken through each step of the chocolate making process
from the cocoa tree to raw cacao, fermenting and roasting of the beans, and the final transformation into delicious Pod Chocolate.
Not exact matches
looking at the ingredients it contains
cocoa mass, sugar,
cocoa butter, emulsifier (322
from soy), vanilla extract it does say may contain gluten cereals, milk, peanuts and
tree nuts but i'm assuming that's just to cover themselves?!
Chocolate comes
from a plant known as the
cocoa tree, or Theobroma cacao.
The Cacao Bean is the dried and fully fermented seed of the Theobroma Cacao
tree from which
cocoa solids and
cocoa butter are extracted.
While cacao and
cocoa are derived
from the same
tree, carob comes
from a completely different
tree known as the «Ceratonia siliqua» which is also commonly known as the carob
tree, St Johns - bread or locust bean.
These farmers are supported in their work producing high - quality
cocoa through technical assistance
from organic agronomists and
tree nurseries.
The
cocoa tree, Theobroma
cocoa, originates
from the upper Amazon basin, where wild types of the plant are vanishing as the forests are felled.
But the seeds inside
cocoa pods are «recalcitrant»: they die just weeks after being separated
from the mother
tree.
The researchers harvested beans
from five
cocoa tree farms in Bolivia at the beginning and end of the dry season, which runs
from April to September.
We drink coffee and
cocoa, eat the fruits of citrus, mango and banana
trees, flavour food with cloves, vanilla and cinnamon, nibble cashew and brazil nuts, build houses with wood
from tropical pines and drive on rubber tyres.
Cocoa is the component which will be derived
from the seed of the
cocoa tree.
Dark chocolate is made
from the seed of the
cocoa tree and is the best source of antioxidants on the planet.
Trace the journey of the
cocoa bean
from tree to chocolate bar.
There are abundant
cocoa trees all around, and I learn
from the hotelkeeper that you can crack a
cocoa nut open and find a juicy, tender fruit inside, wrapped around the seeds and strongly resembling a human brain in appearance.
Jade Mountain also runs an organic farm and there is an on site chocolate laboratory making chocolate
from their own estate grown
cocoa trees.
The garden of Kebun Villa is filled with frangipani, heliconia, coconut palms, coffee, clove,
cocoa, durian and mangosteen
trees, everywhere, there are places to sit and chat or just relax and listen to the sound of running water, the wind in the
trees and
from this lovely garden this villa takes its name «kebun» (orchard).
The route runs through the Atlantic Forest, until we get to São Francisco Farm, where there will be a tour to the local
cocoa planting and processing activities, with the opportunity of tasting it right
from the
tree.
Chocolate comes
from the
cocoa beans of the cacao
tree, and
from this bean arises a multi-billion-dollar industry, with 90 % of the world's
cocoa produced by smallholder farmers who possess less than five acres / two hectares of land.
Black soap is made
from the ash of locally harvested plants and barks such as plantain,
cocoa pods, palm
tree leaves, and shea
tree bark.
Bark
from the birch
tree is just one of those iconic things... you see it and immediately your mind is transported to a cabin in the woods, a roaring fire, and a cup of
cocoa.
There are only three varieties of cacao
tree: the Criollo, Forastero and a hybrid of these, the Trinitario; most
cocoa is made
from a mix of varieties.