Chocolate quiz

Chocolate quiz

Postby viorel » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:56 am

Use the Internet to find answers to these questions:
1. Why is chocolate possibly good for you?
Of course, chocolate is eaten for pleasure but it moreover has a potential health effect. Beneficial effects are anticancer, brain stimulator, cough preventor and antidiarrhoeal effects. The aphrosidisiac effect is yet unproven.

2. What is the most popular chocolate bar in the U.S. /Britain?
In UK Cadbury certified the most popular chocolate bar is Fairtrade, in US opinions is divided between Snickers and classic Hershy Bar.

3. When was chocolate first sold in solid form?
In 1826 Pierre Paul Caffarel, a Italian entrepreneur sold first the solid chocolate, same one who we are eating today.

4. In Europe was chocolate first popular as a drink or a food?
In the 16th century, the Spanish conquest imported to Europe popular drink from Mesoamericans people and was very expensive. The chocolate drink become a favourite European courts. The chocolate wasn’t first popular as drink and food in Europe for common people.

5. Is chocolate really addictive?
Chocolate don’t contain more psychoactive compounds that other foods. Maybe the pleasure to eat the delicious chocolate can became addictive, but the chocolate must eaten in reasonable quantities.


1. Who invented the milk chocolate?
2. Why is necessary at harvest that the pods be fully ripe?
3. What is the chocolate liquor?
4. Why used pre-Columbian the cacao beans?
5. Is benefit for animals the chocolate?
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.mallenbaker.net
http://www.catalogs.com
http://www.infoniac.com/health-fitness
viorel
 

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