CHOOSEY CHOCOLATE

Have you gained a Covid kilo from eating chocolate during lockdown? Join the club! However, did you ever ask yourself where the chocolate came from?

Year 9 Design and Technology students researched into the supply, production and marketing of chocolate to discover some interesting facts. Most chocolate is made from cocoa beans sourced from endangered rainforests by children who are paid beans to collect the precious ingredient.

The students in Design and Technology aimed to create an original chocolate made by ethically sourced means and present it to the world. Forget a glass and a half of full cream milk, these recipes were tried and tested to incorporate a variety of alternative ingredients such as coconut oil, stevia and chia seeds.

These melt in your mouth delicacies, motivating marketing materials, SWOT and cost analysis are a few of the examples of what was produced in the magic of the students’ own homes.