Chocolate-FactsHere are some chocolate-facts.1. Of chocolate-facts, this is a good one. Especially if you are sensitive to caffeine. Chocolate does contain caffeine but, you would have to eat 10 bars of it to equal the caffeine in one cup of coffee. 2. Chocolate is good for you. It's additives are not. (sugar, butter etc.) Pure chocolate is full of iron and antioxidents. 3. Chocolate always wins the popularity factor! It is one of most popular foods and is always desired. 4. Cocoa butter which is the fat extracted fromthe crushed and roasted cocoa beans is often used as lotion and massage cream. 5. Cocoa beans were used as currency by the Mayan and Aztec cultures. 6. Cacao pods produce 20-40 cacao beans per pod. (FOR MORE INFORMATION: CLICK HERE)
7. Chocolate is known as "food of the gods". 8. In the Mayan civilization, chocolate was forbidden to women. (How unfair!) 9. What is the most preferred type of chocolate? Answer: Milk Chocolate. (92% of Americans prefer milk chocolate.) 10. In 1871, Milton Hershey, 19 years old, founded his company in Pennsylvania. 11. The original 3 Musketeers Bar had three parts: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. It was produced in the 1930's. 12. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook published a recipe for chocolate brownies in 1896. 13. Every American and Russian space voyage has included chocolate bars.
Do you know these chocolate-facts?14. In the 16th and 17th centuries eating chocolate was a sin. (I would be sinning alot!) (Wouldn't you?) 15. Chocolate contains Theobromine, this is highly toxic to dogs, cats and other household pets. Teobromine overstimulates their cardiac and nervous systems, it can cause them instant death. 16. Allergies to chocolate are very uncommon. (Most people develop and addiction!) 17. American chocolate companies use around 1.5 billion pound os milk a year. 18. Did you know that during the "Gold Rush" in San Francisco , Dominbro Ghiradelli of Italy began making chocolate. In San Francisco, CA, his original factory still stands on Ghiradelli Square.
20. Chocolate chips were introduced by Nestle in 1939. (What did we ever do without them?) 21. In Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 movie "Physco", chocolate syrup was used to similate blood in the shower scene featuring Janet Leigh. 22. Where do all of the nuts go? Well, heres the facts. Chocolate manufacturers currently use 20% of the worlds peanuts and 40% of the world's almonds. Could there be a better combination than chocolate and nuts? 23. The word "Chococlate" comes from the word "Xocolatl". This means bitter drink and was drank in the Mayan and Aztec civilizations. 24. In the Mayan and Aztec civilizations, they believed that cocoa beans came from paradise and that wisdom and further more that power would come to those who consumed them. 25. Theobromine contained in chocolate is known to boost low-blood sugar levels and another chocolate containing chemical, chromium helps control blood sugar.
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