The diagram below shows the stages in processing cocoa beans.

The diagram illustrates the steps required for processing

cocoa

beans

.

Overall

,

this

process is composed of three key steps, commencing with picking the

cocoa

beans

and culminating in delivering finished commodities to consumers. The first phrase involving whole

beans

is selected during the picking process before being dried to extract their shell.

Next,

those

beans

are pressed to make

cocoa

liquor, which

then

experiences one of the two approaches, namely

further

pressing or

further

refining. In the former way, the liquor is continued to be pressed to make either

cocoa

or

cocoa

cake. Or else,

this

alcohol is refined before it reaches the industrial chocolate stage, where sugar and

cocoa

are combined.

The next step is

that,

while

the

cocoa

cake experiences a grinding step to make

cocoa

powder to be marketed to customers, the

cocoa

will be switched to the industry to make cakes and drinks. The finished chocolate products are manufactured from the final processing step of industrial chocolate before it is sold to the public.