CHOCOLATES

1. The truth
The truth about
about
Chocolate
CHOCOLATES

2. Yes those candy bars sure taste
good, but there’s a lot you probably
didn’t know about chocolate! Do you
want to find out? Well, here goes!

3. Chocolate is one of the most
popular foods around and is highly
unlikely to ever go out of fashion.

4. The word Chocolate comes
from the Aztec word xocolatl,
meaning, bitter water.

5. Cocoa Beans were first
brought to Europe by the
Spanish Conquistadors in 1528.

6. Chocolate is extracted from the
beans of the cocoa plant
Bean is a vegetable

7. Sugar is extracted from sugar
beat
• The sugar beat is a vegetable

8. Therefore chocolate
is a vegetable

9. Let’s spin the theory further:

10. Chocolate bars contain milk
• Therefore chocolates are healthy!!!

11. Raisins, cherries, orange peels
and strawberries are in chocolate
• They belong to the fruit family, so eat as much
chocolate as you like

12. Chocolate is good for stress
• Just think:

13. “STRESSED”
Read backward means
“DESSERTS”

14. One cocoa pod will contain about
42 beans. It takes up to 270
cocoa beans to make a pound of
chocolate.

15. More than 7 billion chocolate
chips are eaten annually.

16. Despite being high in fat
content, chocolate doesn't appear
to raise blood cholesterol levels.

17. Chocolate contains
caffeine, which produces the
effects of a mild amphetamine.

18. 17,000 people in Belgium work in
the chocolate industry

19. Chocolate is poisonous to dogs (and
other domestic animals). The Theo
bromine found in chocolate is a
stimulatant, and can be too much for
small animals.

20. Chocolate contains high-
quality anti oxidants that
can protect you from developing
cancer and heart disease.

21. Rudolphe Lindt of Switzerland in
1879 was the first to develop a
method to give Chocolate a
smooth consistency.

22. Chocolate's melting point is just
below your body temperature, so
it melts in your mouth. Melting
chocolate in your mouth raises brain
activity

23. Henri Nestle of Switzerland was the
first to create Milk Chocolate by
adding condensed milk to the mixture
when making chocolate bars.

24. Dairy Milk
• The new milk
chocolate was
introduced to the
British market in
1905 and, with
its unique flavor
and
texture, quickly
became the
market leader.

25. Dairy Milk chocolate is the main
ingredient of many other Cadbury
chocolate favorites such as Freddo.

26. Chocolates are the best gifts that you
can send to your loved ones as gifts
with rich, creamy, enticing, chocolaty
flavors from renowned companies like
Ferrero Rocher, Vochelle and Cadbury.

27. Chocolate soon became very
popular and was taken as a sweet
drink with sugar and vanilla.

28. Chocolate has over 500 flavor
components. This is double the
amount found in strawberry and
vanilla.

29. Cocoa butter, which is the fat
extract from roasted and
crushed Cocoa Beans, is often
used as a massage cream.

30. Heard of Mexican Emperor
Montezuma? He drank liquid
chocolate before getting busy in his
harem. Since chocolate make you feel
good, it is considered an aphrodisiac.

31. So who thought of solidifying
chocolate? Thank Mexican nuns from
the 1700’s as they created and
exported the first chocolate product
as a fund raiser for their convent.

32. Some chocolates may cost you but did
you know that Cocoa or chocolates beans
were used as currency by Aztec and Maya
tribes? If we had that today we would be
eating out of our wallets!

33. Talk about sweet ceremonies! The
Maya drank liquid chocolate during
weddings, engagements, baptisms and
even funerals! Whoever thought
there was something ceremonial
about chocolate!

34. We’ve heard of rice and pasta, but
chocolate as a staple? Yes, ask the
South Mexico Olmec tribe back in
1000 B.C. They ate chocolate all
the time! Strange, but true!

35. Chocolate Cakes

36. Some amusing quotes about
Chocolate:
• Forget love-- I'd rather fall in chocolate!!!
• I never met a chocolate I didn't like.
• I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter