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Cocoa Beans in Brazil

Cocoa Beans in Brazil. By : Teddy(The Great One) and Paul. About Cocoa Beans. Cocoa beans came from cocoa trees! The cocoa beans originated in Brazil It is used to make your favorite chocolates

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Cocoa Beans in Brazil

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  1. Cocoa Beans in Brazil By : Teddy(The Great One) and Paul

  2. About Cocoa Beans • Cocoa beans came from cocoa trees! • The cocoa beans originated in Brazil • It is used to make your favorite chocolates • The original name of the cocoa bean is cacao. The reason it is now called cocoa was because of a spelling error. • Cocoa beans are very sensitive ( as you can read in the factors part. • Other info can be seen in other parts of the show.

  3. Growing Cocoa Beans! • Grown in hot wet countries (like Brazil) • Very sensitive so cocoa beans are planted under tall umbrella trees to be protected from sun and wind. • The protection is extreme when 2-4 years of growth. • In the5th year, it will bear. • You will need a lot of experience to tell whether the plant is ripe or not. • These are the main importance in growing cocoa. The factors will tell you more.

  4. Cocoa Locations Brown: major cocoa bean growing areas Yellow: major chocolate production locations

  5. Physical factors The cacao bean grows best in a climate that is hot and wet. The cacao bean is then cultivated to grow in 20 degrees north or south. Needs rain Soil should be rich as cocoa and like many other plants need rich soil. This is just the climate in Brazil. Human Factors Since the cacao tree is so weak and sensitive the farmers plant bigger trees and grow them as shelter for the cocoa beans. This is probably the most important priority. It requires training to be able to know if the cacao pod is ripe and ready to be cut. Since the cacao tree is so weak and frail the workers risk killing the tree is they climb the tree to collect the pods higher up, so the workers use special knives to do that. But when they get them down they normally use a machete to cut the pod in half. Physical and Human Factors

  6. Varieties of Cocoa • There are 3 kinds • Criollo • Forastero • Trinitario

  7. What do these Cocoa Beans turn Into? • Chocolate!! Which makes: • Choc Shake • Kisses • Ice-Cream • Dirty Mouths • Mars • Eminems or M and M’s • Olvantine • Kit Kat • Snickers • Crunch • Smarties………….

  8. C’mon Give us some applause!!?

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