Fair trade coffee and chocolate
Fair Trade Organisations seek to enable farmers to produce sustainably through awareness of their product's values which helps farmers establish the bare minimum that they will accept for their goods .
How they're madeChocolate
1. Growing The cocoa bean is grown in areas with warm climates such as South America, West Africa, and Indonesia. 2. Harvest Occurs after six months after planting. 3. Extraction Is the removing the seeds from the cocoa plant so that they can dry in the sun for six days. 4. Transportation Taken to collection centres where the dried beans are weighed and checked for quality 5. Roasting The beans must be roasted so they can be ground into a very fine liquid mass called coco liquor. 6. Mixing Ingredients such as sugar and milk are mixed in so that chocolate tastes sweat and creamy - just the way we like it. Coffee
1. Cleaning Cherries are picked and cleaned so they can separate the under ripe, over ripe, and broken cherries from the good ones. 2. Spreading Coffee cherries are spread out in the sun usually on a concrete or brick patio. 3. Drying As the cherries sit out to dry they are raked or turned over so that the drying process can be effective. 4. Milling The dried cherries are sent to the mill to be checked and packaged. 5. Factory Processing The cherries are sorted according to quality, type of cherry, and their ripeness. They are taken out of their outer skin to reveal the 'bean like' structure within the cherry. They are then packaged and sent of to coffee companies. This method is used by some of the world's most commonly known coffee growers: Brazil, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. |