Text version for 'Processing chocolate'

The following steps are involved in processing cocoa to make chocolate:

1. Cocoa pods harvested by hand
   
2. Cocoa pods split open using wooden mallets to extract beans
   
3. Grower ferments and cures the beans
   
4. Fermented beans are dried then weighed,  packed and shipped
   
5. Beans sorted and cleaned on a moving belt
   
6. Beans roasted in a continuous roaster
   
7. Roasted beans kibbled into nibs
   
8. Winnowing to remove shells
   
9. Nibs ground into cocoa mass used to make chocolate

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