Chocolate is a food product known and consumed throughout the world. In fact, it can be said with almost certainty that more than 90% of the world's population is a chocolate lover . However, despite its fame, few people know these curious facts about chocolate that we are going to present to you below.
10 fun facts about chocolate
- Chocolate has many science-proven health benefits. The most surprising of them is that the simple act of smelling chocolate is enough to stimulate the brain and make you feel more relaxed.
- White chocolate does not exist naturally; It is made with condensed milk and sugar that includes cocoa butter but does not actually have cocoa paste.
- To make chocolate you need a lot of cocoa beans. For example, to make a pound of chocolate, you have to collect about 400 seeds from the tree.
- The Hershey’s Chocolate Company produces 80 million of its famous Chocolate Kisses per day.
- During the 17th century, the Catholic Church declared that the consumption of chocolate was considered blasphemy and extortion that was related to witchcraft and seduction.
- The Mayan Indians valued cocoa so much that it was used as a bargaining chip.
- Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover cocoa, after his arrival in Honduras in 1502.
- Chocolate melts at 34 degrees Celsius, our body temperature. That is why it melts when we put it in our mouth.
- Every year the Euro Chocolate is held in Perugia, an Italian festival in which chocolate sculptures are made and many events related to it.
- The day of the year when chocolate is given the most and consumed is February 14, that is, Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day.
