Hello readers :)
I just want to share some fun facts about CHOCOLATE
Here they are...
- 17,000 people in Belgium - that’s 1 in every 200 workers - are involved in the making, selling and promotion of chocolate.
- One chocolate chip provides enough food energy for an adult to walk 150 feet. Therefore, it takes about 35 chocolate chips to walk a mile or 875,000 to get you around the world.
- It takes the whole of one year’s crop from one tree to make half a kilo of cocoa.
- USA army rations include 3 x 40g chocolate bars.
- Terrys of York will produce more than 350 million segments of chocolate orange a year.
- 66,000 Crème Eggs are made every hour.
- During the Aztec reign, a slave could be bought for 100 cocoa beans.
- 1 in 7 15-24 year-olds claim life without chocolate is not worth living.
- Joseph Fry of Bristol, England, made the first eating chocolate in 1848.
- 28,000 Terrys Chocolate Oranges are made from 5 tonnes of chocolate.
- The biggest chocolate sculpture ever made was a 4,484 lb, 10 foot high Easter egg, constructed in Melbourne, Australia.
- Chocolate in a blue wrapper won’t sell in Shanghai or Hong Kong, because the Chinese associate blue with death.
- If the number of Toblerones sold in one year were laid end to end, they would equate to 62,000 Km – equivalent to the circumference of the Earth.
- The world’s largest box of chocolates weighed in at 2,002 lbs. It was made in Chicago, USA, and contained Frango mints.
- Africa now produces over 66% of the world’s supply of chocolate.
- The first cacao trees were found growing in the Amazon river basin and the foothills of the Venezuelan and Colombian Andes.
- In 1991, a model ship was made out of chocolate in Barcelona, Spain. It measured 42.5 feet x 28 feet x 8 feet.
- Every year on February 14th, Japanese girls give chocolate hearts to their loved ones. The gesture is copied by the men one month later on “Howaito” white day.
- The largest chocolate ever made was a chocolate marzipan. It was made in the Netherlands over a 3-day period and weighed 4,078 lbs!
- Although chocolate will never be considered a health food based on its nutritional value, it is still good for you! Good for your heart and soul-anything that helps relieve stress and makes you feel so good must be.
Thank You For Reading 
