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'''Bean-to-bar''' is a [[Business model|trade model]] <ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Yamada|first=Nicholas|date=2017-12-13|title=Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: What Does This Label Really Mean?|url=https://perfectdailygrind.com/2017/12/bean-bar-chocolate-label-really-mean/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Perfect Daily Grind|language=en-GB}}</ref> that was born from the artisan and craft chocolate movement representative of an individual company buying ethically sourced cocoa beans to make high-quality wholesome chocolate. The term refers to the upper portion of the cacao to chocolate supply chain, it is a legal [[labelling]] concept for many chocolate brands and is clearly defined as the consistent manufacturing process of taking whole cocoa beans to make chocolate bars that are ready to eat.<ref name=":0" /> [[List of bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturers|Bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturers]] control the roasting time, sugar content, fat content, additives, flavor ingredients, texture and can even enrich the flavor sensory experience through adding essential oils to create hundreds of flavors, types and classes of chocolate through their businesses.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What Is "Bean To Bar ?|url=https://beantobarworld.com/what-is-bean-to-bar-craft-chocolate|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Bean To Bar World|language=en-US}}</ref> Bean-to-bar is a term that has become synonymous with craft, fine, high-quality, natural and nutritional chocolate.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sethi|first=Simran|date=2017-02-08|title=What separates ‘craft’ from industrial chocolate? It’s about diversity.|language=en-US|work=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-elusive-qualities-that-separate-craft-from-industrial-chocolate/2017/02/07/1e5452a8-ecb8-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html|access-date=2022-02-02|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
== Introduction to bean-to-bar ==▼
The term "bean-to-bar" emerged from the [[artisan]] and craft chocolate movement around 2010 from which several hundred small chocolate manufacturing companies were started to meet the demand for bean-to-bar products and the infinitely wide variety of flavors that emerged based on new consumer requirements leading to value-added terms like nutritional value, organic, vegan, slave-free, single-origin, fair-trade, sustainable, no additives and carbon-negative complimenting chocolate product descriptions.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fraser|first=Jinji|date=2020-10-22|title=Meet Four Craft Chocolate Makers Decolonizing the Industry|url=https://www.eater.com/21499205/black-indigenous-craft-chocolate-makers-history-industry|access-date=2022-01-27|website=Eater|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Chocolate: The Journey From Beans to Bar|url=https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/resource-item/chocolate-from-bean-to-bar/|access-date=2022-01-27|website=Rainforest Alliance|language=en-US}}</ref> Bean-to-bar manufacturers take great care in selecting their cacao beans<ref>{{Cite web|title=From Bean To Bar: The Bay Area’s Chocolate Revolution|url=https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2019-09-04/from-bean-to-bar-the-bay-areas-chocolate-revolution|access-date=2022-02-02|website=KALW|language=en}}</ref> with many traveling to plantations in tropical regions to meet with growers in order to establish direct-trade relationships, some have managed to gain access to control the fermentation process. Over 2,500 bean-to-bar manufacturers have emerged around the world in less than 20 years. Entrepreneurs from Australia, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-10-06|title=9 best British bean-to-bar chocolate makers|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/food-drink/chocolate/best-bean-to-bar-chocolate-british-london-makers-brands-bars-a7986971.html|access-date=2022-02-02|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref> and the United States<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-02-12|title=For A Missouri 'Bean To Bar' Chocolate Maker, It's Not Just About The Candy|url=https://www.kcur.org/community/2016-02-12/for-a-missouri-bean-to-bar-chocolate-maker-its-not-just-about-the-candy|access-date=2022-02-02|website=KCUR 89.3 - NPR in Kansas City. Local news, entertainment and podcasts.|language=en}}</ref> with aptitudes for culinary arts, science, technology have all proven to be successful as chocolate makers, one of the most successful was a lawyer named [[Askinosie Chocolate|Askinoise]]. ▼
All bean-to-bar chocolate makers process whole cocoa beans into a final product versus melting chocolate or starting with ground cocoa mass for use as a base, coating, filling or for mixing and molding into truffles, pralines, or other chocolate confectionery.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shute|first=Nancy|date=2013-02-14|title=Bean-To-Bar Chocolate Makers Dare To Bare How It's Done|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/13/171891081/bean-to-bar-chocolate-makers-dare-to-bare-how-its-done|access-date=2022-02-02}}</ref> One of the largest startups, the [[Mast Brothers]], that was actually responsible for driving the boom of craft chocolate business model starting in 2007, using sophisticated marketing campaigns actually employed commercially produced chocolate from a third-party, making them better known as the creators of fake bean-to-bar chocolate in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nast|first=Condé|date=2015-12-18|title=Celebrity Hipster Chocolatiers Reportedly Sold Remelted Commercial Chocolate|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/mast-brothers-chocolate-scandal|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Vanity Fair|language=en-US}}</ref> [[Big Chocolate]] has borrowed the term in a legal and technical sense for marketing ([[False advertising|truth in advertising]]) to compete with the craft chocolate industry developed around the bean-to-bar concept.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Terenzi|first=Sharon|date=September 23, 2016|title=Big Manufacturers Cash In On Craft Chocolate Terms|url=https://www.thechocolatejournalist.com/blog/big-manufacturers-craft-chocolate-terms|url-status=live|website=The Chocolate Journalist}}</ref>
Some bean-to-bar producers are large companies that own the entire process for economic reasons; others aim to control the whole process to improve [[Product quality|quality]], [[Outline of working time and conditions|working conditions]], [[Environmental impact assessment|environmental impact]], and the source. Bean-to-bar chocolate makers are revolutionizing the [[Outline of chocolate|world of chocolate]] leading to the development of many new legal marketing terms to better describe their products to match consumer demand and expectations. Since the industry began developing new certification schemes have been created, trade shows are held annually, the idea has become a centerpiece concept at chocolate tasting competitions and organizations have been developed. Big Chocolate has outright acquired several craft bean-to-bar operations.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Clark|first=Melissa|date=2020-02-11|title=Everything You Don’t Know About Chocolate|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/dining/chocolate-bar.html|access-date=2022-02-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Some cacao farms in tropical America have incorporated the trade model to add-value to make the supply chain more sustainable by producing "'''tree-to-bar'''"<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-11-18|title=Singapore Will Soon Get Its First Tree-To-Bar Chocolate Made From Local Cacao|url=https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/pure-imagination-singapore-cacao-chocolate/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Green Queen|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Bean To Bar|url=https://chocolates-elrey.com/bean-to-bar/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Chocolates El Rey|language=en}}</ref> and "'''farm-to-bar'''"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Farm-to-bar Maui Ku‘ia Estate Chocolate wins gold|url=https://www.lahainanews.com/news/local-news/2022/01/28/farm-to-bar-maui-kuia-estate-chocolate-wins-gold/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=wetzelchronicle.com|language=en-US}}</ref> chocolate. An indigenous tribe, the [[Piaroa people|Piaroa]] of Venezuela, well-known as one of the botanical sources of wild cacao dating to the mid-1800s,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Moreno|first=Simeon|title=Huottuja De'aruhua "The Piaroa People"|url=https://www.huottuja.org/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Huottuja Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref> began in 2019 to launch a sustainable social enterprise startup (cooperative) using the bean-to-bar model combined with the [[Sustainable Development Goals|SDGs]] in South America to build a chocolate factory in their sovereign territory claimed the rights to the term "'''forest-to-bar'''"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Starting an Indigenous Chocolate Factory|url=https://blog.globcal.net/2019/10/indigenous-chocolate-factory.html|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Globcal International}}</ref> as one of its trademarks to make special indigenous chocolate.
As a result of the rise in consumer demand for fine and aromatic dark chocolate created by bean-to-bar (craft chocolate movement) and the idea of small batch recipes, new types of processing equipment and machinery have been developed facilitating small business development. Schools and universities have developed classes and courses in bean-to-bar chocolate making and business development. New certifications, endorsements and labelling schemes based on ethical consumer values have also appeared.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wells|first=Pete|date=2015-12-29|title=Picking the Best in Bean-to-Bar Chocolate|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/dining/mast-brothers-taste-test-bean-to-bar-chocolate.html|access-date=2022-02-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ▼
▲== Introduction to bean-to-bar ==
▲The term "bean-to-bar" emerged from the [[artisan]] and craft chocolate movement around 2010 from which several hundred small chocolate manufacturing companies were started to meet the demand for bean-to-bar products and the infinitely wide variety of flavors that emerged based on new consumer requirements leading to value-added terms like nutritional value, organic, vegan, slave-free, single-origin, fair-trade, sustainable, no additives and carbon-negative complimenting chocolate product descriptions.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fraser|first=Jinji|date=2020-10-22|title=Meet Four Craft Chocolate Makers Decolonizing the Industry|url=https://www.eater.com/21499205/black-indigenous-craft-chocolate-makers-history-industry|access-date=2022-01-27|website=Eater|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Chocolate: The Journey From Beans to Bar|url=https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/resource-item/chocolate-from-bean-to-bar/|access-date=2022-01-27|website=Rainforest Alliance|language=en-US}}</ref> Bean-to-bar manufacturers take great care in selecting their cacao beans<ref>{{Cite web|title=From Bean To Bar: The Bay Area’s Chocolate Revolution|url=https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2019-09-04/from-bean-to-bar-the-bay-areas-chocolate-revolution|access-date=2022-02-02|website=KALW|language=en}}</ref> with many traveling to plantations in tropical regions to meet with growers in order to establish direct-trade relationships, some have managed to gain access to control the fermentation process. Over 2,500 bean-to-bar manufacturers have emerged around the world in less than 20 years. Entrepreneurs from Australia, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-10-06|title=9 best British bean-to-bar chocolate makers|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/food-drink/chocolate/best-bean-to-bar-chocolate-british-london-makers-brands-bars-a7986971.html|access-date=2022-02-02|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref> and the United States<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-02-12|title=For A Missouri 'Bean To Bar' Chocolate Maker, It's Not Just About The Candy|url=https://www.kcur.org/community/2016-02-12/for-a-missouri-bean-to-bar-chocolate-maker-its-not-just-about-the-candy|access-date=2022-02-02|website=KCUR 89.3 - NPR in Kansas City. Local news, entertainment and podcasts.|language=en}}</ref> with aptitudes for culinary arts, science, technology have all proven to be successful as chocolate makers, one of the most successful was a lawyer named [[Askinosie Chocolate|Askinoise]].
▲As a result of the rise in consumer demand for fine and aromatic dark chocolate created by bean-to-bar (craft chocolate movement) and the idea of small batch recipes, new types of processing equipment and machinery have been developed facilitating small business development. Schools and universities have developed classes and courses in bean-to-bar chocolate making and business development. New certifications, endorsements and labelling schemes based on ethical consumer values have also appeared.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wells|first=Pete|date=2015-12-29|title=Picking the Best in Bean-to-Bar Chocolate|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/dining/mast-brothers-taste-test-bean-to-bar-chocolate.html|access-date=2022-02-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== Legal, marketing and technical term ==
Unlike the large scale secondary processing from general chocolate liquor mass, the bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturing style must follow the guideline that the primary company handles the entire process from the purchase of cacao beans (Bean) to the making of the chocolate bar (Bar). Technically, the term is also a legal statement to consumers which is not limited to small craft chocolate manufacturers, because of the market competition and the consumer's demand for bean-to-bar brands, big chocolate (the corporate giants) have adopted the term and some of the other related terms used by smaller chocolate makers.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gordon|first=Clay|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Discover_Chocolate.html?id=-yqdPAAACAAJ|title=Discover Chocolate: The Ultimate Guide to Buying, Tasting, and Enjoying Fine Chocolates|date=2007|publisher=Gotham Books|isbn=978-1-59240-308-0|language=en}}</ref> Values like transparency, sustainability, cooperation and ethics have all proved to be rewarding for most small companies that have emerged since 2010 have sales from $250,000 to 10 million annually.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shute|first=Nancy|date=2013-02-14|title=Bean-To-Bar Chocolate Makers Dare To Bare How It's Done|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/13/171891081/bean-to-bar-chocolate-makers-dare-to-bare-how-its-done|access-date=2022-02-02}}</ref>
It is believed the industry was started in
Many bean-to-bar chocolate makers are based solely online, some have stores for their product, some use other retail locations to sell their product, some contract their facilities and some even private label chocolates for other companies.
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