How is chocolate made?
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Cocoa beans
The raw materials: the seeds of the fruit of the cocoa plant.
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Cocoa paste
Obtained from the fine milling and refinement of cocoa grains.
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Cocoa butter
The fatty part of the cocoa mass.
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Cocoa powder
The dry part of the pulverised cocoa mass.
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Sugar
The ingredient to sweeten the flavour of the chocolate.
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Dried
milk
A derivative of cow's milk, obtained from dehydrating it.
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Other ingredients
Hazelnuts, additives etc. can also be added.