The flowchart illustrates the process of making chocolate as well as pie chart showing divided cost of chocolate bar. Overview, there are 9 steps of the process and the proportion of sales price mostly goes to the chocolate company followed by the supermarket.
The steps of making chocolate start from grinding cocoa until it turns into cocoa liquor while unwanted parts become waste. Then, the pressed liquor becomes cocoa butter and cocoa powder used in an industrial chocolate. To create an industrial chocolate, it requires adding sugars and other ingredients. Alternatively, cocoa butter could be further utilized in food industry. After adding all the ingredients, it is compressed in mold and packed to be ready for selling.
The price of chocolate bar could be divided by 6 part. The largest part will be given to the chocolate company for 37% following by the supermarket for 34%. 15% of the price goes to tax and 10% for ingredients and overhead cost accordingly. Farmer has the least amount of the money with only 4 percentage.
