Top 10 Amazing Facts About Chocolates You Must Know About

1.  Why is World Chocolate Day celebrated?

World Chocolate Day is celebrated each year to commemorate the introduction of chocolate to Europe in 1550. It is said that  chocolate first got introduced to Europe on July 7, 1550. Since then every year the World Chocolate day is celebrated on July 7.

2. Did You Know White Chocolate Doesn’t Contain Cocoa Solids?

White chocolate is a chocolate bar, pale ivory in color, made from cocoa butter, sugar, milk solids, and occasionally vanilla. White chocolate does not contain cocoa solids. Other than white chocolate other types of chocolates, such as milk chocolate and dark chocolate contain cocoa solids.

3. Chocolate has always been there throughout history.

Chocolate has been enjoyed for almost all of its history. One vessel discovered on the Gulf Coast of Veracruz, Mexico, pre-Olmec peoples’ chocolate making was documented as early as 1750 BC. A Mokaya archaeological site on the coast of Chiapas, Mexico, has traces of cocoa beverages dating back to 1900 BC.

4. Cocoa beans were often used as currency.

Cocoa drink was an essential part of Aztec culture by 1400 AD, by which they referred to as xocōlātl. In the rule of Aztecs Cocoa beans were often used as currency.

4. Hot cocoa or drinking chocolate is heated chocolate milk.

Sometimes, hot chocolate made with melted chocolate is called drinking chocolate. The first chocolate drink is said to have been produced by the Maya about 2,500 to 3,000 years ago. The drink became popular in Europe after being introduced from Mexico in the New World.

5. Cocoa is produced in West Africa by two-thirds of the world’s entire cocoa industry.

6. Chocolate melts in your mouth because of cocoa butter used to make it.

7. Did you know that Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, the cacao tree’s dried and fermented seeds?

The cocoa is an evergreen tree native to the deep tropical region of the Americas. According to recent genetic studies, the plant’s most common genotype appeared in the Amazon basin and was gradually transported by humans throughout South and Central America.

8. Where did the first chocolate factory in the U.S. open?

The first chocolate factory in the U.S. opened in Blue check iconBoston, Massachusetts.

9. Did you know who introduced white chocolate to the United States?

Frederick E. Hebert, Jr., was the first to bring white chocolate to the United States in 1946.

10. For the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a real chocolate river was made using chocolate.

The chocolate river was made from 150,000 gallons of water, real chocolate and cream. The filmmakers had to change the formula for the chocolate river because originally the concoction they were using turned blood red. Because of the cream, the mixture began to spoil, and by the end of filming, it smelled terrible. Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop, later described it as “dirty, stinky water”.