Visit to a Chocolate Factory

The students visited a small chocolate factory to support our Social Studies unit on how things go from farm to table. We learned about how chocolate is produced.  We saw chocolates beginnings as a pod on a tree, to how it is packaged for sale at the store. The students even had the opportunity to taste the chocolate and take a bar home with them!

Enjoy the pictures.

On top of chocolate beans.

Thank you Marou Chocolat! Producers of quality chocolate grown in Vietnam.

This machine roasts the beans.

This is how they blend the chocolate butter.

A peak inside to see the chocolate.

Looking into the mixer.

This is how the chocolate is poured into molds.

A sample of dark chocolate.

70% chocolate to taste. Not as sweet as we were expecting!

Watching how they package the chocolate.

Here are the different types of bars they produce from beans around Vietnam.