Chocolate Love

Chocolates, love of life for some people, arrive to the common people from the tropical cocoa tree. Chocolates that we eat today are mostly sweetened and are formed from milk, butter, cocoa and sugar. There is variety of chocolates known today:

• ·        Dark chocolate
• ·        White chocolate
• ·        Unsweetened chocolate
• ·        Couverture chocolate
• ·        Raw chocolate
• ·        Hershey processes milk chocolate
• ·        Milk chocolate
• ·        Gianduja chocolate
• ·        "Candy coating" chocolate

Cool Facts:

1.      Ever space voyage of Russia and America have chocolate bars inside it.
2.      US army rations include several bars of chocolate.
3.      A 100 gm chocolate include about 31g of fats and provides an energy of
4.      Yearly 3.5 tons of chocolate is produced.
5.      Wispa is the world’s expensive chocolate covered with gold and was sold at a price of £961.48 (CoolEarth).
6.      Chocolate has Tryptophan which is associated with human’s feelings and thus produces happy emotions and feelings and phenylethylamine which releases pleasure endorphins.
7.      Cocoa beans are believed to be so  valued in the ancient history that they were used as currency.
8.      Pure cocoa helps to prevent tooth decay.
9.      American’s consume more than half of chocolate of world.

Chocolates are now designed with creativity and innovation that appeal the youth with its delight and sweetness.

 

References

Coolearth. Retrieved from: http://www.coolearth.org/422/blogs-34/climate-change-202/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-chocolate-1617.html