How is chocolate made?
From the tree to your mouth, we reveal the secrets of the chocolate factory
Chocolate production begins at the cocoa tree, where cocoa pods containing cocoa beans in a cotton wool-like pulp are harvested between the months of October and December. The beans are placed between layers of banana leaves for six days to drain the pulp away - a method known as ‘heap’ - before being dried in sunlight, packaged and sent to a factory for chocolate making.