Earlier, we did an activity wherein we had to figure out the steps in creating chocolate:
Cacao roasting is necessary to bring out the flavor of cacao seeds and for them to be easier to Winnow which means 'to separate the beans from the shell
Our group had fun manually removing the shell from the seed!
Refining is turning something into powder while conching also means the same thing
Hawaii 5 I's
Idolizing
Incubation
Insolation
Inoculation
Increased volume
Idolizing
Incubation
Insolation
Inoculation
Increased volume
Our mentor, Emma, is an intern at HARC and she assists in research, help around the farm, and coaches the "Best and most legit" team at Seeds4Tomorrow!
Our group just casually looking fabulous with our cocoa beans