The best chocolates in the world are produced not from the countries producing cacao. The chocolate technology has been kept so long from us. Cacao is the only plant source of everyone's favorite chocolate. This is how we produce the chocolates... from planting to processing....
Cacao trees under nursery
Cacao grafting technology
Pod breaking
The seeds are the ones being turned to chocolate. The white flesh is also sweet but commercially ignored.
This is the cacao beans. Dried and fermented.
It is said that the secret to a good chocolate is in the fermentation process. This is where the fermentation occurs.
These are the beautiful cacao seeds air dried.
The best ones are selected. the rest are rejected.
Sorting trays for the cacao seeds (grading)
These are the best cacao seeds ready for chocolate processing.
