These articles keep on arousing your curiosity right? The topic today is even more fun to read. I will disclose some fun facts you probably did not know about chocolate.
- Do you remember the Aztecs? They used cacao beans as a form of currency. They would trade in cacao beans for whatever they wanted to get (barter trade)
- King Montezuma II used to drink at least 50 cups of chocolate every day. I can’t imagine he was always high (laughs)
- The first chocolate bar was invented in 1847 by Joseph Fry.
- During Thornton’s 100th birthday celebration, the largest chocolate ever was made. It weighed approximately 5,792kgs.
- It takes 400 cacao beans to make 1 pound of chocolate
- The Theobroma tree can live up to 200 years. It can only produce viable chocolate for 35 years only.
- Chocolate makes the human heart beat faster and the mind race faster than kissing.
- One cacao pod can contain up to 42 beans.
- One slave could be bought for 100 cacao beans during the Aztecs reign.
- One cacao tree can produce up to 2500 cacao beans
- The most famous chocolate cookie in the world was made by mistake!
- Chocolate is lethal to cats and dogs. Giving chocolate to dogs and cats can kill them or make them extremely ill.
- Cacao has more than 600 flavors compounds.
- Eating 10kgs of chocolate could result in the death of a human being
- The first chocolate bar was made in England by Cadbury
- Dark chocolate is a good source of antioxidants
- Chocolate is the only edible substance that melts so close to body temperature. It melts at 93 degrees Fahrenheit
- West Africa is the largest producer of chocolate.
- It takes up to 4 days to produce a single perfect chocolate bar
- It took 8 years to develop milk chocolate. It is the most consumed chocolate to date