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by christopher on February 28th, 2009

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Where does choclate come from?

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  • by --paw43--is back for now on February 28th, 2009

    --paw43--is back for now

    From the fruit(seeds) of the wonderful cacao tree!

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  • by cheers2wine on April 19th, 2009

    cheers2wine

    Chocolate comes from the cacao bean. These are grown in the tropical areas around the equator.

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  • by MRMacrum on March 1st, 2009

    MRMacrum

    Willie Wonkas Factory.

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  • by anu's new nothing on February 28th, 2009

    anu's new nothing

    choclate is made from coca plants.

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  • by Andy B has left AB on October 28th, 2011

    Andy B has left AB

    Inside the missing "o", perhaps?

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  • by diane77 on February 28th, 2009

    diane77

    cocoa

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  • by iwnit on October 28th, 2011

    iwnit

    1) "Chocolate i/ˈtʃɒkᵊlɨt/ is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water". The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavor.
    After fermentation, the beans are dried, then cleaned, and then roasted, and the shell is removed to produce cacao nibs. The nibs are then ground to cocoa mass, pure chocolate in rough form. Because this cocoa mass usually is liquefied then molded with or without other ingredients, it is called chocolate liquor. The liquor also may be processed into two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Unsweetened baking chocolate (bitter chocolate) contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, combining cocoa solids, cocoa butter or other fat, and sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk but no cocoa solids."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate
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    2) "The widespraad use of children in cocoa production is controversial not only because of the usual concerns about child labor and exploitation, but also because up to 12,000 of the 200,000 children working in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest producer of cocoa, may be victims of human trafficking or slavery. Most attention on this subject has focused on West Africa, which collectively supplies nearly 80% of the world's cocoa, and Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in particular, which supplies half of the world's cocoa. Thirty percent of children under age 15 in sub-Saharan Africa are child laborers, mostly in agricultural activities including cocoa farming. The major chocolate producers such as Nestle buy cocoa at commodities exchanges where Ivorian cocoa is mixed with other cocoa."
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_cocoa_production

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