Chocolate

Ninety percent of British chocolate comes from cocoa beans grown in West Africa. The main cocoa harvest is in March. Cocoa beans are dried in the sun for a week before being shipped.

When the beans arrive, they are mixed with grit, bits of string, and sometimes even shoes and snakes! They are passed through sieves to separate out the junk from the beans.

The cocoa beans are broken open to release the so called nib. The nibs are roasted and then processed to form a thick brown liquid called cocoa liquor.