The+Cocoa+Plant+-+Group+A

**Description of the Plant** 

Big Bright green Grows chocolate Hard **color**  brown
 * Tree**
 * Leaves**
 * a special quality**
 * what textures**
 * Fruit (pod)**


 * oval**


 * size of football**


 * green when their unripe and bright colors when ripe**


 * the pods grow on the trunk of the tree because there so heavy**


 * 20 to 30 on a tree a year**


 * Bean**


 * brown**


 * small like a Pennie just in a oval shape**


 * oval**


 * 20 to 40 beans in a pod**


 * Growing Facts**


 * Africa and South America**


 * twice a year**


 * when**


 * how**


 * Harvesting**


 * when**


 * how**


 * Varieties**


 * Criollo**


 * Ecuador and Venezuela**


 * qualities**


 * seeds are of finer quality**


 * high-quality chocolate**


 * 10% of the world crop**


 * Forastero**


 * West Africa**


 * qualities**


 * medium quality**


 * bitter and harsh**


 * 90% of the world crop**


 * A new variety Amelonado**


 * Upper Amazon**


 * hybrid**


 * with greater resistance and richer yield**


 * Processing**

**Source:**  Burleigh, Robert. Chocolate Riches from the Rain forest. New York: Harry A. Abrams, 2002. Print. **Quote:** After fermentation, the beans are dried, cleaned, and roasted, and the shell is removed to produce cacao nibs. The nibs are then ground to cocoa mass, pure chocolate in rough form. Because this cocoa mass usually is liquefied then molded with or without other ingredients, it is called chocolate liquid
 * choco what**

**Fermentation**


 * how**


 * why**


 * Drying**


 * how**


 * why**


 * Marketing (selling)**


 * packing**


 * transporting**


 * Interesting Facts About Chocolate**

**Source:**  Burleigh, Robert. Chocolate Riches from the Rainforest. New York: Harry A. Abrams, 2002. Print. **Quote:** Chocolate most commonly comes in dark, milk, and white varieties, with cocoa solids contributing to the brown coloration.
 * ummmm CHOCOLATE**

**name 7 interesting fact about chocolate**

**Source:**  Burleigh, Robert. Chocolate Riches from the Rainforest. New York: Harry A. Abrams, 2002. Print. <span class="Default�323�Char">**Quote:** <span class="Default�324�Char">Chocolate has become one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and hearts on Valentine's Day. Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages, to produce chocolate milk and hot chocolate. The world's top continental producer of cacao beans is Africa, where recent controversy has focused on the use of child labor in cocoa production.
 * Chocolate for the holidays**

<span class="Default�325�Char">**Chocolate Fever** <span class="Default�326�Char">**Source:** <span class="Default�327�Char"> Burleigh, Robert. Chocolate Riches from the Rainforest. New York: Harry A. Abrams, 2002. Print. <span class="Default�328�Char">**Quote:** <span class="Default�329�Char">Chocolate is planted in europe. When done planting it is a little bean called the cocao bean. <span class="Default�330�Char">**Paraphrase:** <span class="Default�331�Char">Chocolate comes from a plant in Europe each pod has at least 14 cocoa beans in it and they plant the beans to grow more cocao trees.

<span class="Default__Char">**climates**


 * what places does it grow in**


 * where was it found**


 * where was it first spotted**


 * who found it**


 * who first spotted it**


 * cocao beans facts**


 * name the life cycle of the cocao bean**