Chocolate

Chocolate

Postby Andrés Desirello » Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:03 am

Chocolate quiz

Why is chocolate possibly good for you?
Studies have shown that chocolate can improve your mood, make you eat less, lower inflammation and help you fight against aging.

What is the most popular bar of chocolate in the United States/Britain?
In Britain, the most popular chocolate bar is Cadbury’s “Dairy milk” closely followed by “Snickers”.

When was chocolate first sold in solid form?
In the 1850s, Englishman Joseph Fry changed my life by adding more cocoa butter, rather than hot water, to cocoa powder and sugar. The world’s first solid chocolate was born. In 1875, Daniel Peter and Henri Nestle added condensed milk to solid chocolate, creating a milk chocolate bar. In 1879, Swiss chap Rudolphe Lindt invented the conch, a machine that rotated and mixed chocolate to a perfectly smooth consistency. By 1907, Milton Hershey’s factory was spitting out 33 million kisses per day.

In Europe was chocolate first popular as a drink or a food?
It was first popular as a drink and by a couple of centuries if I might add. Liquid chocolate was a big hit in Louis XIV’s court. In 1657, the first chocolate house opened in London. You could go to the chocolate house, have a drink, play some cards, talk politics, that sort of thing.

Is chocolate really addictive?
Even though the craving of chocolate is a real thing, none of its components have been proved to be addictive, thus making the chocolate itself non-addictive.

More Questions
• How much chocolate do you eat in a month?
• Can chocolate cause serious health risks?
• Who were the first to drink chocolate and what was the purpose behind it?
• Nowadays is the chocolate industry big?
• When chocolate first arrived to Europe, how was it used?
Andrés Desirello
 

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