How chocolate is made

how did people ever figure out how to make them from this to that, amazing!

The fermentation step (where the beans sit in their sweet pulp) is actually what starts creating those rich, complex chocolate flavors, without it, it'd just taste bitter and flat. Most commercial chocolate loses a lot of the natural flavanols (the good-for-you antioxidants) during heavy processing and alkalization, while bean-to-bar or traditional methods preserve way more.

Some steps were skipped, but that's the way it goes, yes.

Beautiful Just Beautiful Magnifico 💯

The fermentation step is where all the flavor complexity originates — raw cacao is bitter and astringent. Controlled microbial breakdown over 5-7 days generates 600+ flavor compounds. Chocolate is essentially a fermented food that nobody thinks of as fermented.

I never knew this! Thanks for sharing btw

Wow, I finally got to see how chocolate is made with my own eyes!

That's interesting Good to know how chocolate is made

My eternal thanks to whoever came up with the first ever chocolate recipe 😁

Thank you, I won't eat chocolate anymore! ✌️

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This leaves out a major part of the process, which is fermentation. The beans and pulp are typically fermented for a week prior to roasting. That develops the flavor and without it you don't have chocolate

OK stop it........

WOW beautiful process

From now on I will eat chocolate again.

Too bad they don't know how to actually do it RIGHT🤨🤦🏼‍♀️

All not true 😂😂

What an incredible process!

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They make chocolate from this too?