14 short facts about chocolate to blow your mind
1/25/2021
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If you love sweets as much as I do, you just can't miss this set of short little-known facts about chocolate!
#1 Nazis once tried to kill Winston Churchill using an explosive chocolate bar.
#2 The Aztec Emperor, Montezuma II, drank 50 cups of chocolate every day.
#3 The first chocolate bar was invented in 1847.
#4 In the 1940s, hundreds of Canadian kids went on strike to protest chocolate price surges.
#5 Dark Chocolate has a lot of caffeine. About as much as a Coca-Cola.
#6 Lay's once tried to sell chocolate covered chips. The chips were advertised as “salty-sweet”
#7 All chocolate bars contain parts of insects. The official limit is under 60 insect bits per bar, otherwise the chocolate bar fails quality control.
#8 Aztecs loved chocolate so much they used it as currency. During their reign, a slave could be bought for 100 cocoa beans.
#9 It takes 400 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate.
#10 For most of its history, chocolate was consumed in liquid form, not as bars.
#11 Europeans and Americans consume 90% of all of the world's chocolate.
#12 Chocolate is three times more flavorful than red wine. Red wine has 200 flavor compounds whereas chocolate comes in at a whopping 600.
#13 Chocolate can produce mild antidepressant effects because of its effect on endorphins.
#14 Cocoa trees live for 200 years but can only make chocolate for 25.
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37 Comments
Linda Spreng
As long as I can't see an actual insect 'part', I'm gonna pretend you ever said that!
Nancy Schwalen
Chocolate and red wine - delightful combination.
Eve
Dark chocolate...mmmm..mmmm...love it
dwilliamsmustang
I love bugs, so that's why the chocolate tastes so good!
Nancy Mueller
25 years of producing cacao then the tree quits? How many years does it take to mature to production? Does the tree then sit around taking up space after its 25 years or is there a reason for them to be kept around—like great leaf taste or wood that builds strong houses?
Jeanne King Ormond
Why can't insect parts be cleaned out of the beans or during the manufacturing process?
Jim Johnson
I love chocolate but I did not need to know the insect part. Excellent article
Paddy Danforth
Insects in chocolate
dottiedewberry
#7 Freaked me out!!! Yuck!!! That will be hard to erase out of my brain. Lol. I will still eat chocolate.
Elsy O. Stromberg
Madi Marven, A little bit!
Cindy Ursan
Nancy Mueller, can you imagine living in a house that smells like chocolate? I’d never buy air freshener again!!
Julie Allen
Jeanne King Ormond, Have you ever noticed them?
Patricia Green
Nancy Mueller, It takes 5 years before the tree produces the cacao pods.
Deena Grady
Sadly I'm allergic to chocolate; the smell is amazing, however.
Jacqueline Tattam
Nancy Gardner, Ugh. White chocolate is made with a blend of sugar, cocoa butter, milk products, vanilla, and a fatty substance called lecithin. Technically, white chocolate is not a chocolate.
Mariann Snider
Same here!😂Linda Spreng,
Jo Colombe
Insect parts (yuck) I may never look at another chocolate bar without thinking of bugs.
debdeane
The Nazis attempt to murder Churchill by putting explosives in chocolate.
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