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Crack one open and you won't find candy at all -just a slippery white pulp packed with about 30 to 50 pale seeds called cacao beans. Those bitter beans taste nothing like chocolate yet, but with a lot of work they will become the sweet treat dropped into your Halloween bag. How does a slimy seed turn into a candy bar? Follow along!  \nBefore those beans can travel anywhere, they need a rest in the sun. Farmers scoop the beans and their pulp into piles or boxes and let them ferment for about a week, where warmth and tiny living things called microbes give the beans their deep chocolate flavor. After fermenting, the beans are spread out to dry, sometimes on long wooden trays, until they harden and turn a rich brown. Only then are they packed into sacks and shipped to factories far away.  \nOnce the dried beans reach a factory, the real transformation begins with fire. Workers roast the beans to bring out their flavor, then crack off the shells and grind the insides into a thick, gritty paste. That paste is squeezed, mixed with sugar and milk, and stirred for hours until it becomes the smooth chocolate you know. Believe it or not, chocolate was a bitter drink for thousands of years before anyone thought to make it sweet.  \nSpeaking of that bitter drink, the ancient Maya and Aztec peoples of Central America and Mexico loved it long before candy existed. They ground roasted cacao beans into a frothy drink flavored with spices, and the Aztecs valued the beans so much they used them as money. A story was even told that the god Quetzalcoatl gave cacao to people as a gift. Can you imagine paying for lunch with a handful of beans?  \nChocolate stayed a fancy drink for the wealthy until machines in the 1800s made it cheap enough for everyone to eat by the bar. Once candy makers could wrap small chocolates quickly and sell them for pennies, they became the perfect thing to hand out to trick-or-treaters. Today chocolate is one of the most popular candies given away on Halloween in the United States. So the next time you unwrap a piece, remember it began as a bitter bean in a steamy forest - and once cost as much as  \ngold.  \nHow Chocolate Is Made  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) What does a cacao pod hold inside when you crack it open?\u003Cbr>A. Dry roasted beans mixed with sugar\u003Cbr>B. Sweet brown chocolate ready to eat\u003Cbr>C. A frothy drink flavored with spices\u003Cbr>D. Slippery white pulp with pale cacao beans |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) Why did chocolate become a good candy to hand out on Halloween?\u003Cbr>A. The Aztecs shared their frothy chocolate drink recipe\u003Cbr>B. Machines could wrap small chocolates quickly and sell them for pennies\u003Cbr>C. Farmers began growing cacao trees in the United States\u003Cbr>D. People began drinking chocolate instead of eating it |  |  |  |  | 4.  \u003Cbr>5.  \u003Cbr>6.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) Why do farmers let the beans ferment for about a week?\u003Cbr>A. So the beans can dry out and turn brown\u003Cbr>B. So the beans can be used as money\u003Cbr>C. So warmth and microbes give the beans their chocolate flavor\u003Cbr>D. So the shells crack off before roasting |  |  |  |  | 7.  \u003Cbr>8.  \u003Cbr>9.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4) According to the passage, what does the story about Quetzalcoatl explain?\u003Cbr>A. That the beans were shipped in wooden trays\u003Cbr>B. That machines in the 1800s made chocolate cheap\u003Cbr>C. That a god was said to have given cacao to people as a gift\u003Cbr>D. That the beans first came from a factory |  |  |  |  | 10.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 5) What did the Aztecs do with cacao beans besides drink them?\u003Cbr>A. They wrapped the beans as candy\u003Cbr>B. They gave the beans to trick-or-treaters\u003Cbr>C. They used the beans as money\u003Cbr>D. 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