Hey, steemians there are sone facts aboit the daily and happily consumeable item called chocolate
- Chocolate comes from a fruit tree; it’s made from a seed.
- It takes 300 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate.
- Each cacao tree produces approximately 3500 beans.
- Research to date supports that chocolate can be enjoyed as part of a balanced, heart-healthy diet and lifestyle.
- The average serving of milk chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of decaf coffee.
- Because cacao trees are so delicate, farmers lose, on average, 30 percent of their crop each year.
- U.S. chocolate manufacturers use about 3.5 million pounds of whole milk every day to make milk chocolate.
- Studies have demonstrated that one of the major saturated fats in chocolate does not raise cholesterol like other hard fats–meaning chocolate can be enjoyed in moderation.
9 .Theobroma Cacao is the tree that produces cocoa beans, and it means “food of the gods.” Carolus Linnaeus, the father of plant taxonomy, named it.
10.Approximately 3 million tons of cocoa beans are turned into chocolate products each year - Thorntons created the world's largest chocolate bar
12 You can die if you eat too much chocolate
Chocolate contains high levels of a powerful stimulant called 'theobromine'. Theobromine poisoning can cause heart failure, seizures, acute kidney damage and dehydration.
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