Process of Production
Cocoa powder, cocoa butter, milk powder and sugar is the main materials used in chocolate manufacture but cocoa powder is considered the most important of all so let us know how the cocoa powder manufactured.
The cocoa powder manufacture consists of 9 stages
- Bean cleaning
- Roasting
- Winnowing
- Preliminary grinding
- Alkalization
- Pressing
- Pulverisation into 1/4" – 1/2" fragments
- Milling
- Screening to size
And as shown below the flow sheet for chocolate manufacture

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