How Chocolate is made
Have we wondered how we get chocolate
from? Well this time we will enter the amazing world of chocolate so we can
understand exactly how chocolate is made.
Chocolate is taken from a tree called
cacao tree. This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in place such as
South America, Africa, and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about the
size of a small pine apple. In side the fruits are the tree's seeds. They are
also known as coco beans.
Next, the beans are fermented for about
a week, dried in the sun. After that they are shipped to the chocolate maker.
The chocolate makers work by roasting the beans to bring out the flavour.
The beans from different places have different qualities and flavour. So they
are often sorted and blended to produce a distinctive mix.
The next process is winnowing. The
roasted beans are winnowed to remove the meat nib of the cacao bean from its
shell. Then the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are grind to make liquid.
The liquid is called chocolate liquor. It tastes bitter.
All seeds contain amount of fat and
cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half fat. It is pure
bitter chocolate.
Photosynthesis
What is photosynthesis? Photosynthesis is
a food-making process that occurs in green plants. It is the chief function of
leaves. The word photosynthesis means putting together with light. Green plants
use energy from light to combine carbon dioxide and water to make sugar and
other chemical compounds.
How is the light used in photosynthesis?
The light used in photosynthesis is
absorbed by a green pigment called chlorophyll. Each food-making cell in a
plant leaf contains chlorophyll in small bodies called chloroplasts. In
chloroplast, light energy causes water drawn form the soil to split into
hydrogen and oxygen.
What are the steps of photosynthesis
process? Let me tell you the process of photosynthesis, in a series of
complicated steps, the hydrogen combines with carbon dioxide from the air,
forming a simple sugar. Oxygen from the water molecules is given off in the
process. From sugar together with nitrogen, sulphur, and phosporus from the
soil-green plants can make starch, fat, protein, vitamins, and other complex
compounds essential for life. Photosynthesis provides the chemical energy that
is needed to produced these compounds.
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