That would be the cocoa tree.
The Cocoa Tree! The fruits of the cocoa tree are oval-shaped pods, 8 to 14 inches long, ranging in colour from yellow or green to red or violet and containing the cocoa beans. See www.cocoatree.org
You can't simply make cocoa beans. They are plants that from from a cocoa bean tree. You can however make different things from cocoa beans such as chocolate.
They cut down the tree of cacao. The cacao is beans that have chocolate inside it. That's how the Aztecs made chocolate.
Midges have nothing to do with cacao beans, which grow on a tree. Specifically, the Theobroma cacao also cacao tree and cocoa tree, which is a small (4-8 m {13-26 ft} tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae, native to the deep tropical region of South America. Its seeds are used to make cocoa powder and chocolate.
Chocolate comes from Native American tribes living throughout Latin America.
Cacao, is a type of evergreen tree, that produces pods of beans used to make cocoa and chocolate.
it makes cocoa pods which are then broken open to get the cocoa beans inside then they are taken to a factory to make chocolate
Cocoa and Cocoa butter come from the beans of the cacao tree. They are dried, roasted, ground up and mixed with sugar to make eating chocolate.
Chocolate is derived from the beans of Theobroma Cacao , cocoa or chocolate nut tree. So it is produced from a fruit.
The pods are cut off the trunk, opened, and the beans are removed to be dried, roasted, and ground into chocolate.
Cocoa beans grow in the tropics on a small tree. The beans grow in pods abount the size of a deflated football. First the beans are removed from the pods and firmented for afew weeks. Then they are roasted not unlike coffee beans. After that they are ground into cocoa. To turn these beans into chocolate, a good portion of them are roasted and sent separated by a machine called a winnower. From there they are ground into a paste and mixed with cocoa butter and sugar until refined into various forms of chocolate.
Cocoa beans are the dried and fully fermented seeds of the cacao tree. They contain a variety of components including cocoa solids, cocoa butter, and other natural compounds that contribute to the flavor and nutritional profile of chocolate. These beans are typically roasted, cracked, and processed to make cocoa powder, cocoa butter, and ultimately chocolate products.