The diagram illustrates how cocoa beans are processed.
Overall, this linear process consists of 3 stages, commencing with the preliminary preparation and ending with distinct related products being distributed to consumers and the cakes and drinks industry.
At the beginning of the process, picked cocoa beans are peeled to exclude their shells before the drying process. Subsequently, these beans are pressurized to become a cocoa liquor.
This stuff can continues the manufacture in two different ways, which are for different purposes. By experiencing another pressing treatment, two products are formed, namely, cocoa cake and cocoa. The cocoa cakes are then ground to become powder, which can either be directly delivered to customers or distributed to industries relating to cakes and drinks, as well as cocoa. The second process involves further refining process, whose result is industrial chocolate. This stuff, along with sugar and cocoa from the first way of manufacturing, will become the final chocolate products after an extra processing step. Finally, they will be distributed to customers.