How People in the Rain Forest use the Cacao tree
By Hayley Steele
The cacao tree makes many things people in the rain forest use. The cacao tree helps to make oil. The oil that is in the cacao tree also helps to make rubber. The cacao beans are planted with bannanas to help them get sweeter. The meat of the cacao bean gets shaved off and served for mostly baby food. It also makes cacao butter, it's like normal butter but it's very bitter. It also makes medacations to cure sicknesses and diseases, but I like how it makes cosmetics, for example the powder in docters gloves. Soap is a thing that the cacao tree also helps make it smells very good.But the most popular thing are cacao seeds.They are used for many things, like Japanese tea leaves that are put in a tea bags.The cacao tree also helps make kola nuts, cocoa powder and liquor.
HOW CHOCOLATE IS MADE
Some cacao trees grow in large plantations.Others grow on small farms. Farmers plant the seeds on somthing called nursery beds.They tend for the seeds until they are a few months old.They are then ready to be transplanted.Then the farmers take them to taller trees such as coconut and banana trees. Then 9 or 10 months later the people get the cacao beans and cook, dry, and shell them.Then they take them to the factory and crack them and do a thing called winnowing then they grind the nibs and after all that prossesing it turns into chocolate liquor then they put the sugar and cacao butter then they grind it again then it's heated in the storage tank and then TAH! DAH! It's chocolate!
HOW THE CACAO IS MADE FOR DISHWARES.
People use the chips and scraps of bark for fire wood,because it burns very well. The big outside shell called a "pod" is some times used to hold water. Sometimes if the cacao tree is rotten inside they will throw it in the fire or take out the beans boil the pod in water then clean it and use it for bowls cups and small shovels.
USEFULL THINGS THAT THE CACAO TREE MAKES
The cacao tree is very usefull.The thing that I like most about it is that it makes instruments out of the pod! They take out the beans ad every thing inside and put new dry beans in and then they get cecropia sap and seel the top of the cacao pod with the beans inside and shake them like maracas. The other usfull things it makes are furniture.
MEDICINES THE CACAO TREE MAKES.
In south America the cacao tree helps the heart. The natives toast the seeds and eat them and that helps to dry scalps.
