The Delightful Delicacy: Chocolate

Today's post is about the world famous and loved food called chocolate. People all over the world love chocolate because of its sweet taste, but it is also known for its deadly calorie supply. I would like to teach you about chocolate and how to eat it healthily. Chocolate is a processed sweet made from the seed of a cacao tree. There are three main types: milk, dark and white. I personally like dark, but milk chocolate is the most popular. Last year, I went to Brugge, Belgium and visited a chocolate mueseam. I learned a lot of surpriseing facts. Cocoa beans were dicovered by the Aztecs in Latin America. They first used chocolate as a holy drink for the rich. Cocoa beans were used as currency, so only the people who could afford to eat it ate it. Over centureis of time, chocolate spread all around the world.n Milton Hershey took this lovely sweet and created a business. By 1907, the Hershey Company was making 33 million Hershey Kisses a day. This is just a little summary about chocolate, but I'm not here to give you a history lesson so if you want to learn more about the history of chocolate click below.
                                              http://www.choco-story.be/ENG/history.htm

Fun Facts:

-The Swiss consumme the most chocolate per capita
-there are about 5 milligrams of caffeine in a milk chocolate bar

- The name chocolate comes from the Aztec word xocalati meaning bitter water
-More than 66 percent of the worlds cacao is produced in Africa and 98 percent of the worlds cocoa is produced by just 15 countries
- twice as many women eat and crave chocolate than men
-17,000 people in Belgium work in the chocolate industry
-Almost half the world's chocolate is consumed in America
- More than 7 billion chocolate chips are eaten annually

Stereotypes about Chocolate:

1. Chocolate isn't nutritious
-While chocolate is high in calories and fat, new research shows the it contains antioxidants that can help fight disease. Cocoa is also high in magnesium which is linked to a healthy heart and joints. Chocolate has long been considered a good source of energy.

2.Chocolate make you fat

-That is only partially true. It's not the cocoa that makes you fat it is the sugar in it that makes you fat. Dark chocolate is healthier because it has less sugar. Bottom line: eat chocolate in moderation.

3.Does chocolate cause acne?

-again, it isn;t chocolate that causes acne. Oil buildup and high blood sugar cause acne. If you eat more sugar, then there is more chance of you to get acne.

While chocolate is a delicious confectionary, it should be eaten  in moderation and enjoyed tremendously.