Interesting Facts About Chocolate: If you want to express love or bring a smile on the face of a crying child, then give him chocolate. You might also like chocolate a lot. Many types of chocolates are available in the market today, such as chocolates with creamy texture, crunchy touch and nuts. In today’s time, customized chocolates have also started coming which are available in many designs ranging from flowers to flowers. National Chocolate Day is celebrated to promote its industries. This day was started by the National Confectioners Association. If you are also a chocolate lover, then you should know some facts to it which are quite interesting.
Consumption of chocolate is also beneficial for health, because it is rich in many antioxidants. That’s why fitness freaks like to eat dark chocolate. Most of the people know about the brands of chocolates and its different types, but there are many interesting things about its beginning which hardly anyone would know. So, on the occasion of National Chocolate Day, let us know more than 10 such things.
Interesting facts to chocolate
- In today’s time, there is no dearth of chocolate lovers in our country too, but do you know that chocolate came to India during the British rule. Cocoa cultivation was started for the first time in Courtallam.
- Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, it also has three types, Criollo, Forastero, Trinitario.
- Switzerland is the country where chocolate is consumed the most per capita. Apart from this, chocolate is also consumed in large quantities in countries like Germany, Australia, Ireland and Belgium.
- Eating sugar-free chocolate is not only beneficial, its aroma can also help in reducing stress and enhance the mood.
- The origin of chocolate is believed to be linked to ancient Meoamerican civilizations.
- Chocolate is available in many flavors today, but for the first time it was consumed as a drink.
- During the Second World War, chocolate was also included in the diet or ration of soldiers, because it works to boost energy.
- Milk chocolate is also very much liked. Its construction was started in 1875 by Conrad Johannes Ben Houten.
- The first chocolate factory in Britain was started in 1847, which was started by JS Fry and Sons, but chocolate sales started only in 1842.
- There are interesting facts about the discovery of chocolate. Its history is considered to be thousands of years old and even in ancient civilizations it was known in many different ways, like the Aztecs used cocoa beans as currency, in the Maya civilization it was called the food of the gods, while in the Olmec civilization, drinks were made from cocoa seeds.
