the inside fruit, or nibs, remain. Workers crush the nibs into a soft substance called chocolate
liquor. This gets separated into cocoa solids and fat called cocoa butter. Chocolate makers have
their own special recipes in which they combine chocolate liquor with exact amounts of sugar,
milk and cocoa fat. They finely crush this “crumb” mixture in order to make it smooth. The
mixture then goes through two more processes before it is shaped into a mold form.
Chocolate making is big business. The market value of the yearly cacao crop around the world
is more than five billion dollars. Chocolate is especially popular in Europe and the United States.
For example, in 2005, the United States bought 1.4 billion dollars worth of cocoa products.
Each year, Americans eat an average of more than five kilograms of chocolate per person.
Speciality shops that sell costly chocolates are also very popular. Many offer chocolate lovers
the chance to taste chocolates grown in different areas of the world.
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