Chocolate key to smile# happily taken by everyone

in #chocolate7 years ago (edited)

Hey, steemians there are sone facts aboit the daily and happily consumeable item called chocolate

  1. Chocolate comes from a fruit tree; it’s made from a seed.
  2. It takes 300 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate.
  3. Each cacao tree produces approximately 3500 beans.
  4. Research to date supports that chocolate can be enjoyed as part of a balanced, heart-healthy diet and lifestyle.
  5. The average serving of milk chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of decaf coffee.
  6. Because cacao trees are so delicate, farmers lose, on average, 30 percent of their crop each year.
  7. U.S. chocolate manufacturers use about 3.5 million pounds of whole milk every day to make milk chocolate.
  8. 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
  9. 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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