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'''Cinagra is a Madgascar chocolate factory in [[Antananarivo]], producing high quality chocolate made with from cocoa grown exclusively in the [[Ambanja]] region of North West Madagascar. Cinagra is a so-called single origin cocoa bean-to-bar chocolate producer of single origin cocoamaker.
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|[[File:Cinagra 025.jpg|196px]]Grinding processing unit.
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|colspan="3" | [[File:Cinagra 070.jpg|600px]]Crushed cocoa nibs ready to be mixed in the for conching machine.
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|[[File:Cinagra 029.jpg|196px]]The conching is a 72-hour mixing process of cocoa and other ingredients, such as cocoa butter.
|[[File:Cinagra 041.jpg|196px]]The tempering machine adjusts the mixture to an exact temperature prior to moulding bars or pralines.
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|[[File:Cinagra 037.jpg|196px]]Chocolate moulding machine.|[[File:Cinagra 040.jpg|196px]]Chocolate bars.|[[File:Cinagra 046.jpg|196px]]Packaging.
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|[[File:Cinagra 047.jpg|196px]]Small chocolate bars, as often sold with coffee orders in cafe's etc.
|[[File:Cinagra 049.jpg|196px]]Date expiry marking machine.
|[[File:Cinagra 055.jpg|196px]]A 44% cocoa and a 72% cocoa chocolate ready for sale.
|colspan="4" style="padding-bottom: 3px" | [[File:Cinagra 063.jpg|600px]]
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|[[File:Cinagra 001.jpg|147px]]Palissandre (80g).|[[File:Cinagra_003.jpg|147px]]Tsar Noir (75g) 100%.|[[File:Cinagra_009.jpg|147px]]Tsar (80g) 63%.|[[File:Cinagra_005.jpg|147px]]Eben (80g).
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Besides the various chocolate bars and cooking chocolate sold in super markets supermarkets and shops throughout the country, Cinagra also supplies confectioneries, such as [[Chocolaterie Colbert]], with so-called industrial chocolate. The dark chocolate bars named ''Eben'' and ''Tsar'' have between 55% and 100% of cocoa, the milk chocolate bars such as ''Palissandre'' vary between 38% and 44% in cocoa. One of their latest products is Tsar with 72% cocoa, flavoured with chocolate nibs and Fleur de Sel (sea salt). In 2009 Cinagra won the 1st price at the international chocolate competition ''Salon du Chocolat de Paris'' with their dark Tsar chocolate (63% cocoa).
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