Why is chocolate possibly good for you?
Chocolate may be better for your health than tea, because it contains more of a chiemical that could prevent cancer and heart disease.The researchers examined the chemical compounds in a range of foods and discovered that catechins are fond in chocolate. Up until now tea was thought to contain the largest amount but the new research indicates that dark chocolate has four times as many. Catechins are believed to protect against heart disease and cancer and so eating products taht contain them could have health benefits.The researchers also think the cacao plant, from which chocolate and cofca is derived, may restrict the formation of the type of cholesterol shich damages the heart as well as boosting the immune system.
Dark chocolate lowers high blood pressure, but that's no license to go on a chocolate binge. Eating more dark chocolate can help lower blood pressure., if you've reached a certain age and have mild high blood pressure.
What is the most popular cchocolate bar in the U.S.? It's the classic Hershy bar.
When was the chocolate first sold in solid form?
At the end of the 18th century, the first form of solid chocolate was invented in Turin by Doret. In 1819, F.L. Cailler opneed the first Swiss chocolate factory. In 1828, Dutchman Coenraad Johannes van Houten patented a method for extracting the fat from cocoa veans and making powdered cocoa and cocoa butter. Van Houten also developed the so-called Dutch process of treating chocolate with alkali to remove the bitter taste. This made it possible to form the modern chocolate bar. It is believed that the Englishman Joseph Fry made the first chocolate for eating in 1847, followed in 1849 by the Cadbury brothers.
In Europe was chocolate frist popular as a drink or a food?
The first recorded shipment to Europe for commercial purposes was in a shipment from Verac ruz to Sevilla in 1585. It was still served as a beverage, but the Europeans axded sugar and milk to counteract the naturall bitterness and removed the chilli pepper, replacing it with another Mexican indigenous spice, vanilla.Change to the taste meant that by the 17th century it was a luxury item among the European nobility.
Is chocolate really addictive?
A more compelling explanation lies in our ambivalent attitudes towards chocolate. It is highly desired but should be eaten with restraint: nice but naughty. Our unfulfilled desire to eat chocolate, resulting from restraint, is thus experienced as craving, which in turn is attributed to addiction.