What is the composition of a cocoa bean in terms of moisture and fat?
36% moisture and 30% fat
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What are three examples of the remaining composition of cocoa beans other than moisture and fat?
Sugars, starch and carbohydrates
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What is the manufacturing process of cocoa beans?
cocoa beans to harvest to ferment to dry to store and transport
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What is the manufacturing process of chocolate?
cocoa beans to harvest to ferment to dry to store and transport to clean to micronise and winnow to roast to blend to grind to mix and mill to refine to conche to temper to product
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What step is cocoa liquor produced in?
grind
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During drying, what does the % moisture of the cocoa beans equal?
6%
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What degrees above and below the equator is cocoa grown at?
20 degrees
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What is UK chocolate made from?
chocolate crumb and cocoa butter
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What is white chocolate made from?
sugar, milk powder and cocoa butter
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Why is the UK chocolate consumption decreasing?
sugar tax, health concerns, media and smaller products
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What is the fat composition of cocoa butter?
61% saturated fat, 36% monounsaturated fat and 3% polyunsaturated fat
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Why may dark chocolate be considered a superfood?
it has antioxidant properties
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How do you get cocoa butter?
pass cocoa liquor through a hydraulic press to force cocoa butter out of cocoa liquor
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How do you get cocoa powder?
get cocoa cakes left behind from pressing cocoa liquor for cocoa butter and ground to a powder
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