Compléter Cocoa to ChocolateVersion en ligne How cocoa is grown and chocolate is made par Mr Haffejee 1 trees chocolate week growing plantations leaves shop beans Africa Chocolate banana shipped hot beans cocoa sun Brazil cacao machete pods factories trees harvested split Chocolate bars . Chocolate ice cream . Chocolate milk . Delicious ! But where does chocolate come from ? is made from the fruit of , starting about 100 million years ago . The Olmecs of Mexico were probably the first to grow the cacao plant . It is thought that they used the cacao to make drinks , but there is no written history for the Olmecs . We buy from a but chocolate actually comes from beans . Chocolate comes from cacao . Cocoa pods grow on cocoa . Cocoa trees are grown in large , in places such as in South America and Ghana in West . After six months of , the cacao pods are ripe and they are . The cocoa pods are open with a and the cocoa are removed . The beans are covered with and left to dry out in the for about a . The beans are out to chocolate all over the world .