Who doesn't love good chocolate? Dating from 10,000 BC, the delight has curious and interesting facts in its history. The Swiss Chocolates Brand Lindt Master Swiss Chocolatier listed 10 facts about chocolate, check it out:
- The first chocolate death occurred in the seventeenth century in Mexico after a group of chocolate-addicted nobles refused to go to a cult because eating or drinking was forbidden during meetings. The prohibition order came from the local bishop, found dead with poisoned chocolate.
- The term? Chocolate? comes from the Aztec word? Xocolatl? which means 'bitter water'.
- The largest candy bar in the world was made in Italy in 2000 and weighed 2 tons. It's too much chocolate.
- Americans eat an average of 10 kg of chocolate a year.
- While the US is the country that produces and consumes the most chocolate, Switzerland is the country that consumes the most candy in relation to the number of inhabitants (per capita), followed closely by England.
- American chocolate factories use more than 1.5 million liters of milk a year.
- Chocolate factories use approximately 40% of all almonds and 20% of all peanuts produced in the world.
- The microwave was invented because of a chocolate. While scientists were experimenting with microwaves, one of them, called Percy Spencer, entered the lab with a chocolate bar in his pocket, which melted, leading to microwave testing to heat and cook food.
- All American and Russian flights have candy bars.
- On Christopher Columbus' fourth visit to the Americas, he presented the Spanish kings with cocoa beans. The kings were unimpressed and dismissed the delicacy as tribal and bizarre.
SURPRISING Facts about Chocolate (March 2024)
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