by Akash Kumar Singh
1. The first chocolate bar was made by Cadbury in England in 1842. The word chocolate import from the Aztec word xocolatl, meaning, virulent water.2. Chocolate manufacturers use 40% of the world's almonds and 20% of the world's peanuts. People spend approx 7 billion dollars in a year on chocolate.
3. The largest chocolate bar was manufactured by Elah-Dufour United Food Companies at Turin, Italy, in March 2000 & the weight of bar is 2268 kilograms.
4. Most of the people thinks- calories are bad. Think suchlike this: one single chocolate chip can provide you sufficient energy to pace 150 feet.
5. Milk chocolate is most popular & favorite chocolate in the world; dark chocolate is very famous amongst men. These two flavor of chocolates in sale very much.
6. Chocolate contains large amount of Antioxidants and which is really good for health. Antioxidants help to prevent cancer and heart diseases.
7. A half-cup of special extra-flavonoid-enriched cocoa every day can helps the women's skin moister, smoother, and less scabrous and red when uncovered to ultraviolet light. The flavonoids absorb UV light which helps protect & increase blood flow to the skin.
8. Chocolate always melts in our mouth while candy not melts. This is because melting point of chocolate is lowest than candy i.e 93 degrees Fahrenheit. That's why it melts in our mouth while candy not.
9. A fascinating info about chocolate is that Americans love vanilla flavor. In fact, Americans are having a love affair with chocolate. And not only on Valentine's Day even, in the year 2000 alone, 3.3 billion pounds of chocolate were eaten in the U.S.!
10. Chocolate includes a chemical called phenylethylamine. These phenylethylamine, put out serotonin and endorphins- these two chemicals make us feel happy!
11. 17,000 people in Belgium work in the chocolate industry. 66 percent of the entire worlds cacao is produce in Africa and rest of cocoa is farmed in 15 countries.
12. One ounce of baking chocolate or cocoa is equal to 10% of the daily suggested intake of iron. Which is very helpful for the people.
13. Chocolate discharges chemical into your body which is created when you start falling in love. In 2006 more than 6.5 million tons of chocolate was traded worldwide.
14. Chocolate is a valuable energy source. The shelf life of a box of chocolate is approximately one year.
15. A dozen of chocolate bars is equal to the amount of caffeine found in a cup of coffee.
