The given diagram illustrates the ways of cocoa beans production.
Overall, it can be seen that there are three steps to produce the cocoa beans from picking the cocoa beans until distribution involves drying the cocoa beans, processing in the factory. and packaging until ready to distribute for customers. In addition, on the second stage that it divide by two stages, there are pressing and refining the cocoa beans.
All the initial stage, the cocoa beans pick at the cocoa trees and accompanied in one places. Following this, the beans are dried in certain high temperature until their’s shells apart. After beans are dried, the second stage is pressing the beans into the beans extract cocoa liquor or liquid form. These procedures are followed by two methods such as press and refine the beans.
The pressing process is aimed to make desert like as cocoa cake or cocoa for industry. To make the cocoa cake, the beans that stiil as a raw materials is crushed by grinding machines and formed cocoa powder for consumers or food industry. Moreover, another cocoa as a pressing results can bring to food and chocolate industry. Fo the industrial chocolate, the cocoa are mixed with sugar to make finishing chocolate products and distributed to customer, this process similar with refining process of beans.