Some Fun Facts About Chocolate
Sweet, sweet chocolate. The very essence that defines the sweet tooth for many millions upon millions of people every single day. The decadence that can melt away the stress of an afternoon toe to toe with your boss or help you drown your sorrows in the event of a break up from your significant other.
It is also available in just about any form that the mind can imagine from liquid, to solid bars, to ice cream, to everything in between. It comes in white, dark, milk, fudge, with nuts, without nuts, with candies and without…. there really is no limit to how the imagination can reinvent any type of chocolate treat.
Too, it has also recently been discovered to be good for you, providing many of the antioxidants your body needs to fight the free radicals that attack your cells, this provides the perfect reason — as if there were none before — to indulge in the sweetness that is chocolate. But did you know, that aside from all these beneficial properties, that there are a whole host of fun chocolate facts out there just waiting to be discovered?
For example, among the many fun chocolate facts, is that the reason milk chocolate melts in your mouth is because the melting point for it is slightly lower than the normal temperature of the human body; the first ever chocolate bar was produced in England in 1842 and since then, the making of chocolate bars has been the single most successful chocolate industry product on the market today; white chocolate products were not readily available until after the 1970s and over 3.5 million pounds of whole milk goes in to the making of chocolate every single day all across the United States.
In addition to these fun chocolate facts, it has been proven that chocolate has properties that help calm the body and make you feel much better in times of sadness by helping to release chemicals in the brain to counter stress and sadness.
Additionally, over half of the population in the United States prefers the flavor of chocolate to any other and an astounding 63% of Americans will also buy themselves chocolate when purchasing it as a gift for someone else.
As you can see, by these fun chocolate facts, that chocolate has become part of our collective culture and will forever remain the sweet of choice.
