Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)

1098.98 - 1121.477 Ben Gilbert

Yes. So that fruit is actually the thing that people ate for thousands of years, but the seed ends up being the thing that becomes chocolate. You first ferment those beans in wooden boxes. The yeast eats the sugar. That creates alcohol. Then the acid eats the alcohol. There's fermentation that kills the beans. So after this fermentation, you then dry it. All this kind of happens at the site of