so this is the cacao fruit and you can actually eat it you can drink out of it
so the cacao fruit grows here in the amazon
this fermented and inside we have the entire cocoa bean trying a brigadeiro right by the amazon river
the roots are as big as a regular tree
when it rains in the amazon it's poured
good morning guys from belem in brazil
we have another fun day ahead of us we are going to kombu island there are 25 islands around the
lane we're going to be learning how they make chocolate so we've been consuming a lot of
acai and chocolate but we don't really know how it's made so it'll be good to go behind the seams
behind the scenes where it really comes from it's raining so that'll make for an interesting
day all right now we're getting on a boat
so to get to the kombu island you come to this terminal you would buy a boat ticket for around
20 royale to get to the island today we're taking a private tour so we won't be taking the one that
most people would normally take so i'm not sure if this is normal or not in brazil or around the
world but there is a gas station over here for boats and it looks just like a car's gas station
the sign the pumps everything so you just pull up your boat
and you get gas just like you would a car i think it's usually different than that i haven't seen
what looks like a car gas station for boats i thought they would be completely different
but take a look at this it's just like a floating gas station
all right we're getting on the boat this is gonna be awesome the kombu island that we have heard
such great things about this speed boat is covered by a tarp to protect us from the wind and the rain
before we begin our journey we are stopping at a gas station an island gas station actually
floating gas station a floating gas station this is a first i've been on many boats but i've never
been to a gas station while on a boat here it is there's the pump just like a regular gas station
okay we just filled up our boat this is the floating gas station
they even have like a convenience store just like a regular gas station
you can buy chips and drinks wow cigarettes cigarettes wow that's awesome so just like our
ride the other day we're gonna have a ride with emotion as a brazilian
all of these houses were painted as part of a social project and it is awesome they're
all different colors there are murals it doesn't seem like it belongs in the amazon
so something you always have to think about in brazil is the tides and the changing of waters
it has affected our plans many times so far since we've been in brazil and that was no exception
we're on our way to see how acai is made in the jungle but the tide is too high so we can't get in
right now so we're gonna go see some chocolate and chocolate making process and then we will be back
we're gonna learn a little bit about chocolate
where it comes from where the best chocolate in the world comes from
wow so this needle is from this tree here palm tree of papunya
cacao fruit right there that is how they make chocolate with that fruit baby cacao fruit
i even wore babies wow barely even see it so if you want to know where chocolate comes from
this is how it starts we just have a picture here so this is the cacao fruit and you can
actually eat it you can drink out of it we did that in another video if you saw that
but it was red it was this large red fruit and it was actually really good it was sweet
has nothing to do with chocolate as far as anyone would know the flavor is nothing like it yeah so
the chocolate comes from the cacao seed which is much different than the flavor of fruit who knew
we didn't we're here where they're showing us the chocolate making process
they make it here so the cacao fruit grows here in the amazon in brazil and we had no idea
how much work went into making chocolate or even just the cacao nibs from the time they
get it from the fruit the seed from the fruit it takes around 15 to 16 days just to make cacao
nibs so let's go over there and check out how they make it until 16 14 to 16 days process
this fermented seeds that we call the cocoa bean we removed the shell this this husks so first you
remove the cacao seed and then you remove the pulp and everything around the seed and then it becomes
this the cacao bean and from there starts the process from the bean you get the nibs like this
and we're going to make the first transformation we're going to free the cocoa butter
from the inside part of the bean
any less now
put the nibs in this machine crank them out and then it comes out like this forms the bar
you can try for example these smells so good this broth
there are a lot of steps that go into making chocolate the type of chocolate that you see
at a store into a milk chocolate bar so it starts with the cacao fruit they take the seeds from the
cacao fruit they remove the pulp and they dry the seeds uh for about six days they put them
in a wooden box after that then they put the seeds in the sun and they ferment for about
four to ten days then when that's ready there are a lot more steps that go into it after that so
to get a bar of chocolate it probably takes a good 20 to 30 days
so we have a cacao brownie here and this is another way they consume the brigadeiro
we usually see it as the sphere as the ball that you see around but you can do it kind of just like
a pudding that you spoon it out with so this is the inside of the brigadeiro as we know it you
can put this on top of the brownie to add a little extra flavor almost like a frosting looks awesome
wow so much cacao
heaven and little boats going by as we try these things look where we are
hello trying a brigadeiro right by the amazon river this probably is going to be the best
brigandero we've ever had we've had a few here for those of you who don't know brigadeiro is cacao
condensed milk and sugar into a bowl you can see the real cacao nibs on the top of that
wow oh yeah that's good it's not as sweet as other brigadeiros that i've had but i
actually prefer that you get more of the real authentic flavor of the cacao
all right so one way they eat this chocolate is with the kupasu jelly so we have some
kupuasu and then some cacao nibs never seen something like this before let's give it a try
wow it's like a burst of flavor that jelly has a lot of flavor
the nibs are not sweet if you've ever had plain chocolate without sugar just like the
nibs they're not sweet they're crunchy they're a little bitter it's just the cacao flavor okay
we have some chocolate milk here made right here okay it's good one more ah this is good thank you
these are some of the biggest trees in the amazon
this is the tree this thing is huge we are basically just within the roots
of it right the roots are as big as a regular tree it is wide and tall
and we can't even really show you that on this camera
so this is a cacao tree so you'll see them on here there aren't very many of them
and they're very small this tree is like 25 years old and it's just a little bit taller than us
so they can use these fruits for chocolate production when they're about six months old this
one is four months old this is only a few weeks old and then you'll see even little baby ones that
might be even just a few days one of these fruits after six months will produce about 50 grams of
chocolate which really isn't that much it's about one to two bars of chocolate that's hard
to believe because they have a whole chocolate production here but we don't see many trees around
here and they don't farm them they don't plant these trees all over they just they leave it
natural they take the trees as they come naturally as they came here so you'll see just a few trees
here but they make a bunch of bars of chocolate somehow but like they said one of these trees
will produce maybe 20 25 fruits that they can use so that's only like 20 to 30 bars of chocolate
for a six month period it's been pretty amazing to visit this place and learn where chocolate
comes from because we all eat chocolate every day we see it around but i think most people
don't really know where it comes from at least i never did i never knew it came from a fruit
and how much work went into it that it took 20 to 30 days just to make a bar of chocolate crazy yeah
now let's get back to the boat and we're gonna see how acai is made we've been waiting for this
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