Every chocolate tells a tale
- seekhkabab
- Jan 24, 2016
- 3 min read
“Every chocolate tells a tale”
Chocolate is a preparation of Theobroma cacao seeds. Cacao has been cultivated by many cultures for at least three millennia in Meso America. Evidences show that chocolate beverage dominated society since the 1900 BC.
Chocolate has become of the most wanted and admired food types and flavours in the world. Cocoa originated in America. Today western Africa produces almost two –thirds of the world’s cocoa, with Ivory Coast growing almost half of it.
Pure, unsweetened chocolate contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Most of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, combining chocolate with sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, milk but no cocoa solid whereas dark chocolate has been promoted for unproven health benefits.
White chocolate, although similar in texture to that of milk and dark chocolate, does not contain ant cocoa solids because of this; many countries do not consider it as chocolate at all.
Dark chocolate is produced by adding fat and sugar to the coca mixture.
A 100 gm serving of milk chocolate supplies 540 calories. It is 59% carbohydrates (52% as sugar and 3% as dietary fibre) 30% fat and 8% protein. Approximately 65% of the fat in milk chocolate is saturated, composed mainly of palmitic acid and stearic acid which unsaturated fat is oleic acid.
Chocolate and cocoa are under preliminary research to determine if consumption affects the risk of certain cardiovascular diseases. Chocolate may be a factor of heartfelt in some people because one of its constituents, the throbromine, may affect the sphictu muscle, hence permitting stomach acidic contents.
Chocolate is associated with festival such as Easter, when moulded chocolate rabbits and eggs are traditionally given in Christian communities, and Hanukkah, when chocolate coins are given in Jewish communities. Chocolate hearts and chocolate in heart- shaped boxes are popular on Valentine’s Day and are often presented along with flowers and a greeting card. Chocolate is an acceptable gift on other holidays and on occasions such as birthdays.
Some interesting facts about chocolates.
Chocolate manufacturers in the United States use approximately 3.5 million pounds of whole milk to make milk chocolate.
More than 50% of adults in the US prefer chocolates of any flavour.
Believe it or not, Americans eat 2.8 billion pounds of candy annually. About half of it is chocolate.
Apparently chocolate melting in one’s mouth can cause a more intense and longer lasting pleasure than kissing.
About 40% of almonds produces in the world are made of chocolate products. Without chocolate, the almond is nothing.
A single chocolate chip can give you enough energy to walk 150 feet.
People who suffer from depression are said to eat about 55% more chocolate than their non depression peers.
The word chocolate comes from “Xocolate”, the Aztec word that means “bitter-water”.
Every Russian and American spaces voyage has included chocolate bars.
Chocolate sent increases theta brain wave which induces relaxation. This is mainly why people feel better about their problems after eating loads of it.
If dark chocolate is eaten every day, effectively it reduces the risk of heart diseases by one third.
World’s biggest chocolate bar weight, 12.770 pounds.
Milton Hershey, the founder of Hershey chocolate, was supposed to go on the Titanic but cancelled last minute due to business issues.
Eating chocolate can pretend tooth decay and works as an anti-bacterial agent.
In Mayan times the cocoa bean was used as currency as it was considered to be worth more than gold dust. Cultivation of the beans was restricted so the values of cocoa beans are money would not go down.
So many toblerone bars are sold lack year that, if they were laid end to end, they would go on for 62,000 km which is longer than the circumstances of the year.
The invention of the chocolate is among the best in history.
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