Interesting Facts About Chocolate
Interesting Facts About Chocolate. Chocolate is a food produced using broiled and ground cacao seed pieces, that is accessible as a fluid, strong or glue, all alone or as an enhancing specialist in different food varieties. Cacao has been consumed in some structure since essentially the Olmec human progress and most of Mesoamerican individuals, including the Maya and Aztecs made chocolate beverages.
Making of Chocolate
The seeds of the cacao tree have a serious severe taste and should be matured to foster the flavour. After maturation, the seeds are dried, cleaned, and broiled. The shell is taken out to deliver cocoa nibs, which are then ground to cocoa mass, pure chocolate in unpleasant structure.
When the cocoa mass is condensed by warming, it is called chocolate alcohol. The alcohol may likewise be cooled and handled into its two parts: cocoa solids and cocoa margarine. Baking chocolate, additionally called severe chocolate, contains cocoa solids and cocoa margarine in differing extents, with next to no additional sugar. Powdered baking cocoa, which contains more fibre than cocoa margarine, can be handled with antacid to create dutch cocoa. A large part of the chocolate consumed today is as sweet chocolate, a blend of cocoa solids, cocoa margarine or added vegetable oils, and sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that moreover contains milk powder or consolidated milk. White chocolate contains cocoa margarine, sugar, and milk, yet no cocoa solids.
Interesting Facts About Chocolate
1. The Largest Chocolate Bar Weighed 5,792 kg.
2. 30% of the nation admit to eating chocolate more than 4-5 times per week.
3. Not only are we eating chocolate more regularly, we’re craving it more often too. 23% of Aussies now crave chocolate at least once a day, compared to 17% in 2012.
4. Eating dark chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease by one third.
5. 18 – 24 year olds are twice as likely to eat chocolate before lunch than those aged 60+, whilst a cheeky 6% of 18-24 year olds admit to eating chocolate as their main evening meal.
6. Men are more likely than women to enjoy sweet foods over savoury, however, true to the stereotype, more women than men say chocolate is their favourite food.
7. Chocolate has an anti-bacterial effect on the mouth and protects against tooth decay.
8. Mayans used chocolate in baptisms and in marriage ceremonies. It was also sometimes used in the place of blood during ceremonies. Mayan emperors were often buried with jars of chocolate by their side.
9. The country whose people eat the most chocolate is Switzerland, with 9.9kgs eaten per person each year. Australia and Ireland follow with 9.07kgs and 8.6kgs per person, respectively. The United States comes in at 11th place, with approximately 5.4 kgs of chocolate eaten by each person every year.
10. Among the Mayans and Aztecs, chocolate was originally a cold drink made from crushed beans.
