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When it comes to chocolate, there are only two options: you either love it or you are allergic to it; very few people actually dislike the aroma of chocolate. In this essay I will be taking a look at 2 texts about how chocolate is made. Text 1 is an extract from the novel “Chocolat” by Joanne Harris and text 2 is an informational and promotional piece published by www.greenandblacks.com, titled “From Bean to Bar”. Both texts talk about a passion for making chocolate, but that is where most of…

Did you know that hot chocolate was considered holy by the Aztecs? It was believed to make people stronger. Cacao seeds were so valuable to Aztecs that they used them as currency. Mexican Culture is very complex. Like any other country, Mexico has holidays, a flag and history but what makes Mexico special is that Mexicans feel very passionate about their roots. We may even come off as cocky sometimes but it is only because we love our country and we want the whole world to know how proud we are…

A trip the candy shop is a sure way to brighten a child’s day. The bright taffy, joyous jellybeans, and delightful licorice are enough to send the kid into a fit of glee. Chocolate however, is the real prize in the store. A bar of chocolate is the ticket to a happy afternoon. Chile chocolate is a concrete treat, happiness, the state of contentment and well-being, is an abstract feeling; it is more difficult to describe than a bar of brown. This is not to say that happiness and chocolate do not…

Slavery and chocolate: Most people don’t realize that these two subjects have been associated with each other longer than the United States has been a country. Slavery has been known to be associated with the makings of chocolate for not a usual amount of time now. Huge chocolate companies like Nestle, Hershey’s, etc. prefer child labor to make their chocolate, and not many people know that. Not many chocolate companies fancy Fair Trade (Fair Trade chocolate means that the plantations harvest…

It seems like most everyone would love another reason to feel okay about eating chocolate. As a result, many people have tried to switch over to eating dark chocolate as a way to be healthier. There have been studies done that show dark chocolate is a more mindful alternative than milk chocolate. NPR and BioMed Central have each released articles stating their views on this matter. NPR is a popular reporting business that recently published an article over the effects of dark chocolate…

Did you know that chocolate can help us get smarter and Can it help us stay healthy? Chocolate comes from a cocoa pod and that comes from a tree. We found out that we could eat the cocoa pods seeds because of animals. The animals eat a white, stringy pulp that covers the seed and the animals spit out the bittersweet cocoa seed. We thought that we could use it to make something new. We ground the seed and mixed it with water, spices, and chilies which made the first chocolate drink. My claim…

Neşe Ümit S005003 002- Technology behind the processing of a food product: Gummy Candy 28.12.2014 THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE GUMMY CANDY Gummy candy is a type of soft confectionery that has been first produced by Hans Riegel in Germany in early 1900s. First gummy candy was in the shape of bear and it was called “dancing bear” by its inventor, Hans Riegel himself. Both the dancing bear and the gummy candy factory are called HARIBO which is an acronym for Hans Riegel, Bonn (Hartel, 2014). Turkish…

Have you ever wondered how your delicious chocolate was made? Here is the story of the most amazing factory ever built: Johnson’s Chocolate Factory. This story tells the tale of the hard work the men and women do each day inside of the factory. The Johnson Chocolate Factory was built in 1797 by a man named Aaron Johnson. When Aaron was only 18 years old, he decided to build his own business. He opened a chocolate factory because of his love for everything chocolate. In 1804, Johnson’s…

In Willy Wonka the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka uses his entrepreneurship- a combination of vision, skill, ingenuity, and willingness to take risks to create and run new businesses- and financial capital to produce consumer goods -final goods- such as Wonka Bars and other candies to be sold in stores, a product market -a market in which goods and services are bought or sold- to satisfy the wants -desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good or service- of the people using capital…

Russell Stover’s all milk chocolates have a wide variety of ingredients. The main ingredients needed to make the product are milk, sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, and soy lecithin. The chocolate and cocoa butter come from the cocoa bean. The cocoa bean comes from a cocoa tree and is grown by farmers around the equator (Barry Callebaut). After the beans are fermented and dry enough the cocoa farmers will bring them to collection centers or cocoa plantations (Barry Callebaut). Next the beans…