“Chocolate makes everything better”
Chocolate is solidified happiness. Everyone from 3 to 63 happens to love it. Chocolate is also one of the most gifted items. For its immense popularity, generally, chocolate is gifted on a variety of occasions from birthday to Mother’s Day, Christmas to Chinese New Year. But there are many fascinating facts about chocolates that will enhance your love for them.Read below and know many unknown and interesting facts about chocolates
- How would you react if it is said that chocolate is a kind of vegetable? Actually, dark and milk chocolate comes from the cacao beans which grows on the cacao tree. This cacao tree belongs to the evergreen family of Malvaceae. As chocolate is derived from the growth of a tree, it deserves to be a vegetable- isn’t it?
- Cacao is a tropical tree and it can live up to 200 years but they can produce cacao beans only for 25 years. Near about 70% of the world's supply of cacao comes from Africa and the Ivory Coast contributes nearly 30% of the total world production of cacao.
- To make one pound of chocolate, it generally takes 400 cacao beans
- If you think that hot chocolate is the modern and newest addition in the menu of coffee shops and food joints, then you are wrong. The hot chocolate was probably the first chocolate treat on this earth. Cacao was brewed in Aztec and Mexican culture and that used to be a special drink for special events like weddings or birthdays. It used to be a bitter drink.
- Cacao beans were precious among the Aztecs and they even used it as currency during the prime time of their civilization.
- It is a well-known story that Napoleon Bonaparte loved to have chocolates with wine and he demanded them even during rigorous military camps also.
- Do you know when was the first chocolate bar made? It was made way back in 1842 by the Cadbury Company. It is still one of the most famous chocolate companies in the world.
- In case you are a lover of milk chocolates you should know that Daniel Peter created milk chocolates in 1875 in Switzerland. In his recipe, condensed milk was a key ingredient.
- You should also know that milk chocolates are not considered real chocolates as they don’t have cocoa n them directly. But they do contain cocoa butter that has some parts of the cacao bean.
- Have you ever thought why chocolate melts in your mouth so easily? That’s because chocolate is the only edible substance that melts around 93 degrees Fahrenheit which is just below the human body temperature.
