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Where Roasted Cocoa Beans are
used?
Roasted Cocoa Beans & Chocolate Production
Cocoa beans are raw, you can roast cocoa beans by yourself. Roasted cocoa beans are used to develop the chocolate flavor.
Chocolate production involves observation of Critical Control Points such as temperature to prevent bitterness and darkening. Other ingredients used in chocolate production are sugar, milk or milk powder, cocoa powder, cocoa liquor, cocoa butter and stabilizers.
Where roasted cocoa beans used?
Roasting cocoa beans accomplishes a few numbers of things. These are:
A large variety of goods like plain chocolate, milk chocolate, flavored chocolate, and chocolate coated nuts, fruits, wafers, and biscuits are produced and they are very popular
Things to know about roasted cocoa beans
Roasted cocoa beans are mixed with coarse roasted corn flour and whisked into a rich foaming brew.
Roasted cocoa beans have reduced acidity and astringency. This gives cocoa products a sweeter taste compared to others such as tea and coffee.
Proper roasting of cocoa beans
Heating cocoa beans deepens the color.
Various chemical reactions occur when cocoa beans are roasted and proper roasting is integral to good flavored chocolate.
Conclusion Roasting cocoa beans is an integral process of
chocolate production. The process varies with different chocolate producers who use different temperature while roasting cocoa beans.
It is important to pay keen attention while roasting so that the cocoa bean do not lose quality and nutrients.
Other than organoleptic properties, roasted cocoa beans have an increased shelf life.
