Cacao-folder for chocolate

Cacao trees are small (6 metres tall) evergreen trees. Recent studies have shown that the cacao plant originated in the Amazon and was distributed throughout Central America and Mesoamerica people in a given time. Cacao was grown on at least three millennia in Mexico and Central and South America. The first documented use of cocoa beans has been around the year 1100 BC. Cocoa beans, dried and fully fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree. The tree grows best when covered by some form of the shadow, in the wild, which usually grows under larger evergreen trees of the forest.
Cacao tree is quite common in nature, in large parts of South America. It is grown in places as diverse as the foothills of the Orinoco basin, Andy, and the Dominican Republic.
Cacao trees, the flowers are not a plant, or bees, butterflies, like most of the flowers in the world, but even tiny flies known as forcipomyia midges. There are between 20 and 60 seeds (cocoa beans) on the mature flower below.
The most common use of cocoa beans in the manufacture of chocolate. Chocolate is produced by drying, cleaning, and after fermentation, roasting of cocoa beans, and then remove the shell. It creates what is known as the cacao-holders. These holders are then ground and liquefied, which results in the liquid chocolate, which is known as the chocolate liqueur.
The result of the further processing of the alcohol is cocoa solids and cocoa butter. When creating a chocolate to connect these cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Most of the chocolate, which we buy in the shops today, sweetened chocolate, which meant that the sugar has been added to the cocoa solids and butter.
Milk chocolate refers to chocolate milk or condensed milk, while white chocolate contains only cocoa butter and no cocoa solids. Purists tend to be plain dark chocolate (sometimes not), while milk and white chocolate has become increasingly popular among the younger generations.

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