The diagram illustrates how chocolate produced, while pie chart show that price of chocolate bar different groups involved.
Overall it can be seen that production involved of several stages beggining with the cocoa beans and ending with chocolate bars ,while price of chocolate bar unevenly shared with the largest proportions going to ingredient and supermarket and the smallest share to farmers.
To begin with cocoa beans are grounded after which waste matreial is removed and cocoa liquor is obtained. The liquor is then pressed producing cocoa powder and cocoa butter. The cocoa powder is used in the food industry, whereas the cocoa butter is mixed with more cocoa liquor to from industrial chocolate.Finally sugar and other ingredients are added , and the mixuture is processed to produce chocolate bars.
According to the pie chart the highest proportion of the price is ingredients and overheads , at 37%, closely followed by supermarket which take 34%. In contrast farmers recevied the smallest proportion at only 4%.The remaining cost is divided between tax which represents 15% and the chocolate company accounting for 10%.
