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100 interesting facts about chocolate
Well, chocolate, the first love of every man, woman and child, it's a (however temporary) solution to everything from annoyance and anger to happiness and admiration.
Chocolate is truly one of the wonders of the world, in the past it was prized, it was actually used as currency.
In 2014, U.S. chocolate sales were $ 21.1 billion, which alone shows the importance and demand for this product.
Be it white, milky, darker or more rare varieties (all of which will be revealed later), everyone likes to sit down and have a square or 10.
Here, we take a look at 100 interesting facts about chocolate.
Winston Churchill once threatened to be assassinated by the Nazis by an exploding chocolate bar.
The Aztecs used cocoa beans as currency.
Montezuma II, an Aztec emperor, drank more than 50 cups of chocolate a day.
As with milks, which are dark and white, there is a rare fourth type known as golden chocolate.
The movie "Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory" was sponsored by Quaker Oats to promote its new Wonka Bar.
Joseph Fry invented the first chocolate bar in 1847.
The chocolate industry is worth about $ 110 billion a year.
The Milky Way bars are not named after galaxies;
The original three Musketeers bars were three pieces;
In 1947, hundreds of Canadian children went on strike and boycotted chocolate after the price of a chocolate bar rose from 5 to 8 cents.
Andes candy is called "Andy's Candy", after creator George Andrew Kanelos, but it was changed after the men didn't want to buy chocolates for their partners under the name of another man.
A 2013 study found that chocolate scent in a bookstore made customers 22% more likely to buy books of any kind and 40% more likely to buy cookbooks or romance novels.
The largest chocolate bar ever weighed more than 12,770 lbs (5,792 kg), created in the UK to celebrate Thornton's 100th birthday.
The world's most valuable chocolate bar is the 100-year-old Cadbury's bar, which sold for $ 687 at auction in 2001. It was made during Captain Robert Scott's first expedition to the South.
Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica.
Chocolate milk is an effective post-workout recovery drink.
German chocolate cakes have a history with Germany.
Darker chocolate can have as much caffeine as a can of Coca-Cola.
A 2004 London study found that 70% of people would give their password to a chocolate bar.
Americans buy 58 million + lbs (26 million + kg) of chocolate on Valentine's Day, which is 5% of annual sales.
Brussels Airport is the world's largest chocolate seller, selling more than 800 tons of chocolate a year.
More than 2/3 of the cocoa in the world is grown in Africa and Côte d’Ivoire alone produces 33% of the world's supply.
A chocolate river existed in 1971. The famous chocolate river in the movie Willy Wonka & Original Chocolate Factory is made of 15,000 gallons of water mixed with chocolate
The International Cocoa Organization says the average British, Swiss or German eats 24 lbs (11kg) of chocolate per year.
In 1930, Ruth Wakefield mixed the Nestle chocolates into her biscuit dough after running out of the baker's chocolate while making chocolate biscuits.
Milk chocolate-coated limited edition fries are said to have "a savory-sweet combination, along with the textured contrast of warm melted chocolate and a piece of crispy chip".
The medium chocolate bar contains insect fragments.
A thief stole $ 28 million worth of gems in 2007 after winning the trust of guards at Antwerp Bank by repeatedly giving them chocolates.
One out of every 200 workers, or about 17,000 in Belgium, works in chocolate production and advertising.
A single piece of chocolate gives an adult enough food to walk 150 feet.
It takes an entire crop a year from one tree to produce half a kilogram of cocoa.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup's creator was a farmer, named Harry Burnett Reese, who served as shipping foreman and dairy farmer for Milton S. Hershey, Hershey's founder of chocolate.
Terry's produces more than 350 million chocolate orange segments each year.
During the Aztec dynasty, a slave could be purchased for 100 beans.
1 in 7 people aged 15-24 affirm that a life without chocolate is not worth living.
The largest chocolate sculpture ever made is a 10-foot tall Easter egg weighing 4,484 lbs (2,034 kg) in Melbourne, Australia.
Blue packaged chocolate is not sold in Shanghai or Hong Kong, as the Chinese associate blue with death.
The first cacao trees were found in the Amazon basin and the Andes in Venezuela and Colombia.
In 1991, a chocolate model ship was made in Barcelona with a length of about 42.5ft, height of 28ft and width of 8ft.
Japanese women give hearts of chocolate to their loved ones on February 14.
In the original Psychology movie, the blood in the famous bath scene is actually chocolate syrup.
Chocolate sales in 2014 were $ 21.1 billion.
On December 6 during the feast of St. Nicholas, children in the Netherlands put clogs outside at night so that Santa Claus can fill them with chocolate.
July 7 is the National Chocolate Day in England, the day that marks the first arrival of chocolates in Europe on 7 July 1550. Some have credited Christopher Columbus with this feat in 1504.
International Chocolate Day takes place on September 13, and some national bitter chocolate celebrations with Almond Day on November 7.
Milton Hershey, creator of the Hershey Chocolate Company, started his empire with candy.
5 tons of chocolate is enough to make 28,000 chocolate oranges Terry's.
Daniel Peter created milk chocolate in Switzerland in 1875 after mixing chocolate with condensed milk after eight years of trial and error.
Making chocolate requires about 400 beans to make a pound of chocolate.
Cocoa trees can live to 200 years old but they only produce cocoa beans that can survive only 25 years of life.
The world's largest box of chocolates weighs up to 2,002 lbs (908 kg).
There are 2 types of cocoa trees.
To’Ak Chocolate is one of the most expensive chocolates in the world, Each 50 gram (1.7 oz) bar is contained in a handcrafted Spanish Elm wooden box with its own engraved number of bars.
Chocolate is the only edible substance that melts at a temperature of about 93 ° F, just below body temperature, making it easily melt on your tongue.
Women eat and crave chocolate twice as much as men.
Chocolate cravings have been shown to be unsatisfactory by anything other than chocolate itself.
Chocolate induces mild anti-depressant effects by increasing serotonin and endorphins levels in the brain.
Although not scientifically proven, chocolate is widely believed to be an aphrodisiac.
Dan's Chocolate Factory offers a chocolate-covered bacon burger - and it doesn't look too bad!
Cocoa butter is a by-product made from the grinding of roasted cocoa beans.
Despite its high fat content, chocolate does not seem to raise blood cholesterol.
America consumes almost 50% of the world's chocolate.
If all Toblerone bars sold each year were to cease to be put to the end they would stretch 62,000km (38,525 miles), this is longer than the circumference of the Earth.
The average amount of chocolate a country eats is related to the number of Nobel Prize winners that country has produced.
In 2009, 7.2 million tons of chocolate were consumed worldwide.
In the pre-Colombian period, dinosaur fossils could be crushed and mixed with chocolate.
Red M&M is one of the most popular colors today, but by the 1970s they were replaced with orange pieces for almost ten years.
Chocolate gives you a higher spirit and makes your heart beat harder than kiss.
Hershey's Kisses is named after the kiss sound that chocolate deposits make when dropped from a machine on a conveyor belt.
Hershey's produces 70 million Kisses a day and enough a year to make the 300,000 miles (about 483,000 km) of Kisses a long way.
When the chocolate is covered in a white speckled layer, it has "hatched".
Ben & Jerry's made their first cookie dough ice cream after a hint on their store's flavor hint board.
Chocolate and chili are a famous combination, but Firebox has gone one step further by producing "instant chili chocolate" with 6.4 million Scoville chili extracts.
Napoleon always had chocolate with him;
A cocoa pod will contain about 42 beans.
More than 7 billion chocolate pills are eaten every year.
American author Robert Cormier wrote a novel called The War of Chocolate, which, due to its nature, appeared in Hiep's "Top 100 banned / challenged books in 2000-2009".
Global cocoa production is currently forecast to decline for the third consecutive year, production 2015/16 is expected to stand at 4.1 million tonnes compared to 2014/15 output of 4.2 million tonnes.
It takes almost a year for a cocoa tree to produce enough pods to form 10 normal sized Hershey bars.
Chocolate has three times more flavoring compounds than red wine;
The plant that produces chocolate is called Theobroma cocoa, which means "food of the gods".
To die from Theobromine, a toxic compound found in chocolate, a person who has 12.5 stone (80 kg) would have to eat about 12.5 lbs (5.7 kg) of unsweetened dark chocolate or 6.
The ancient Mayans are believed to be the first to often grow cocoa trees and drink chocolate.
The word "chocolate" comes from the Aztec "xocoatl", a drink made from bitter, bitter cocoa beans.
Chocolate is consumed not as a solid but as a liquid for 90% of its history.
The largest chocolate ever produced was in the Netherlands;
Ninety percent of the world's cocoa is grown on small family-run farms under 12 acres (4,047 square meters).
In 2006, more than 6.5 million tons of chocolate were traded worldwide.
Recipes exist for chocolate and veal soup, surprising combination seems to have only 1 person brave enough to try it, they gave it 4 stars.
In the 17th century, Mexico had someone killed by chocolate.
Chocolate contains tryptophan which makes us very happy.
Pure cocoa can help prevent tooth decay.
Europeans consume about 40% of the planet's chocolate.
Worldwide chocolate producers use about 20% of the world production of peanuts and 40% of all almonds grown.
Chocolate really inspired the Microwave.
Eating unsweetened chocolate has a serious laxative effect.
Cadbury World is located on the site of the Cadbury factory founded by Richard and George Cadbury in 1879.
In 1929, chocolate became Nestlé's second largest product.
Richard Cadbury, son of John Cadbury, founder of Cadbury, made the first box of heart-shaped chocolates in 1861 for Valentine's Day.
William Cadbury (Grandson of Richard Cadbury, founder of Cadbury) commissioned Cadbury logo design in Paris in 1905 by French designer George Auriol.
So we have it, as I said earlier, chocolate is truly one of the wonders of the world, motivating people to do all kinds of things in search of attractants.
Chocolate is an instant source of desire and happiness, but it can even be used to kill people!
Whether it is one of the major chocolate manufacturers, a smaller handcrafted chocolate maker or a premium quality supplier offering you your products, just remember how much effort it takes.
