Food Technology | Processing Chocolate | The processes to make chocolate | | Chocolate can be made in many different forms (candy bars‚ cocoa‚ cakes‚ cookies‚ coating for other candies and fruits) and is probably America’s most popular candy. Chocolate is neatly wrapped as the result of a long‚ delicate and complicated refining process that begins with the theobroma cacao tree. Any delicious bar of fine chocolate begins with the cacao tree. The secret behind cocoa has been dated back
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THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE Many people believe that chocolate originally came from Europe. However‚ chocolate‚ called the “food of the gods‚” was first made in the Americas. The first chocolate was very different from contemporary chocolate. Wild chocolate trees can grow easily in the humid Amazon rainforest. Clusters of flowers growing on these trees turn to seeds. About 20 to 60 cacao beans can be found in the seeds. Cacao beans are the ingredient needed to create sweet‚ soothing
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Cowgirl Chocolates Case Study Questions 1. What are some of the critical strengths and weaknesses of Cowgirl Chocolates that determine the success of this small business? Can the weaknesses be overcome by the strengths of the business? Please note that strengths and weaknesses apply to the internal issues‚ decisions‚ assets‚ people (attitudes‚ talents‚ knowledge‚ passion‚ relationships‚ etc.). 2. Referring to the total product view (Exhibit A)‚ describe the “hot and spicy chocolate truffle”
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to produce sweet chocolate as a coating for his caramels. Located in Lancaster‚ Pennsylvania‚ the new enterprise was named the Hershey Chocolate Company. In 1900‚ the company began producing milk chocolate in bars‚ wafers and other shapes. With mass production‚ Hershey was able to lower the per-unit cost and make milk chocolate‚ once a luxury item for the wealthy‚ affordable to all. A company on the move. The immediate success of Hershey’s low-cost‚ high-quality milk chocolate soon caused the company’s
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making and distributing chocolates and other treats in addition to working as an artist in Moscow. Cowgirl Chocolates are all-natural‚ kosher chocolates that are unique in that they contain hot pepper as an ingredient. When you first put one in your mouth‚ it will taste smooth like other high quality chocolates. After a second or two‚ you’ll taste the fiery pepper. Marilyn admits that not everyone can take the heat of her chocolates. However‚ enough people enjoy both chocolate and spice to keep Marilyn
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Cowgirl Chocolates Final Case Analysis By: Kyle Couchois‚ Gregory Howard‚ Marc Schiller‚ John Sprenger 12/8/2010 Primary Problem The primary problem of Cowgirl Chocolates is that the company has not established a target market for its product and identified its customers. The company specializes in the niche product of hot and spicy gourmet chocolate. According to the company owner‚ only about 15% of Americans are consuming hot and spicy foods and men are usually more receptive
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A Project Report On “ Survey Of Chocolate” Name ID NO. Submitted to “Kajol Mam” Date 10th Sep.2009 INDEX Chapter-I : Executive summary Chapter-II : Objectives of the study Chapter-IV : Research Methodology Chapter-VI : Analysis & Interpretation
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Harvesting Cacao is Hard Work We tend to think of chocolate making as an assembly-line process. Most people picture automated presses plopping out candies onto conveyor belts at speeds unmatched by humans. But before cacao reaches the machinery of a chocolate factory‚ it must first pass through the hands of a farmer. Making chocolate takes years of manual labor. Like most agricultural crops‚ cacao must be closely monitored by farmers. They regularly walk their fields and check for pests‚
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Numerous research has stated that marijuana could help people who are suffering from HIV/AIDS‚ Alzheimer’s‚ Arthritis‚ Cancer‚ Epilepsy‚ glaucoma‚ and chronic pain. Pain works when something from the physical world affects a sensory receptor and sends that information to the brain. Nociceptors are pain inducing sensory cells that are found all throughout the body. When someone who has HIV/AIDS‚ one of the common symptoms is peripheral neuropathy‚ or nerve damage. This damage is detected by the nociceptors
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Chocolate is made from the cacao bean. According to Rodney Lipson‚ “Cacao has been a cultivated crop for at least three thousand years‚ probably quite a bit more. The people who first utilized Cacao were the inhabitants of what is now Venezuela” (Lipson) This group of people would eventually spread the cacao bean in northwestern South America. Cacao was clearly highly valued by these people and they spread it northward through trade with their neighbors. It was probably the Maya‚ over 1500 years
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