IPC Chocolate

The tropical zone

• are regions of the Earth that lie roughly in the middle of the globe, between the latitude lines of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

• Does not have temperature extremes (very hot or very cold)

• can be found around the North and South Poles

• is usually very hot and very dry.

Cacao trees

• Can grow in many different types of climates.

• Grow best in the tropical zones where it is hot and humid, with plenty of rainfall.

• Only grow 2 or 3 pods every year.

• Are farmed on plantations mostly found in Europe.

To 'import' means

• to carry or send abroad (out of the country) especially for sale in another country

• an imaginary circle around the earth everywhere equally distant from the north pole and the south pole

• to bring into a country from another country, usually for selling

• to cut down

Chocolate bars provide us with a lot of 'energy.' What is another word for energy?

• fat

• salt

• protein

• calories

If we do not burn off the calories we eat and drink, they will turn into

• sugar

• fat

• muscle

• chocolate

In 1520, the Aztec Emperor, Montezuma, welcomed which explorer from Spain into Tenochtitlan because he mistakenly thought that he was was an Aztec god, called Quetzalcoatl?

• Hernan Cortes

• Willy Wonka

• Hernando de Soto

• Diego de Almagro

White chocolate is different from milk and dark chocolate because

• It does not contain sugar

• it only uses cocoa butter and no cocoa solids

• it does not melt

• it does not contain any fat

Cacao farming is classified as

• family farming

• subsistance farming

• commercial farming

• mixed farming

Melting solid chocolate into a liquid is

• an irreversible change

• impossible

• solidifying

• a reversible change

Which of these steps comes first in the process of making chocolate?

• Ripe cacao pods are cut down (harvested) from the cacao tree

• the cacao beans are removed from the pods and left to ferment for several days

• the ripe pods are cut open with a large knife, called a machete

• the fermented cacao beans are left out to dry in the sun