Where Food Comes From: Beans to Chocolate

Where Food Comes From: Beans to Chocolate book cover — contents What Is Cocoa 4 Cocoa Trees 6 Cocoa Beans 10 Making Chocolate 16 Fairtrade Chocolate 22 Glossary and Index 24 Do you like chocolate Chocolate is a food that many of us enjoy The most important ingredient in chocolate is cocoa But where does cocoa come from

Where Food Comes From: Beans to Chocolate — page 1 — What is cocoa Cocoa is made from cocoa beans Cocoa beans grow in pods on cocoa trees Cocoa trees grow in countries near the equator where the weather is hot and it rains often dried cocoa beans fresh cocoa beans in a pod 4

Where Food Comes From: Beans to Chocolate — page 2 — It all starts when farmers plant cocoa seeds Cocoa seeds grow into seedlings COCOA FACT Farmers harvest cocoa pods twice a year Each time they collect about 50 pods per tree The seedlings then grow into cocoa trees 5

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