venerdì 17 aprile 2015

Chocolate

Chocolate is a very famous and good food loved from many people. But most of them ignore his origin.
Chocolate comes from the seeds of Theobroma cacao fruit (that means "fruit of God"), which has a shape of a football ball (pod) and it could be yellow or purple.

These fruits only grow in South-Est Asia, Central-South America and West Africa. Farmers collect the fruits by hand and they cut them in two, taking the seeds from the inside.


The seeds are white, they are left of banana's leaves and covered with the same leaves. After a period of fermentation, the seeds, before white, take the color brown.
They are put in bags and they are sent to factories.