It is probably the most-loved food item that the world knows nothing about.
A bite of indulgence, of decadence, is what chocolate is for most of us. We are yet to meet someone who despises chocolate. The solution for almost every problem in the world, had a bad day at the office? Grab a bar of chocolate, love woes? Chocolate is the ultimate solution. There is so much we love about chocolate but do we know everything there is known about it? Do you know that chocolate once was used as currency? Let’s have a look at this and other facts about chocolate that you didn’t know.
Chocolate is a vegetable.
Yes, you heard it right. Chocolate is made up of cacao bean that grows on the cacao tree. And do you know which family that tree belongs to? The same which produces okra and cotton. Now you have a very fine excuse to binge on your favourite chocolate; they are technically vegetable.
White chocolate is not chocolate in the literal sense of the word.
White chocolate just contains bits of the cocoa bean, the main ingredient being cocoa butter. So, if it doesn’t have cocoa solids, so it is prudent to say that white chocolate is not chocolate in the true sense of the word.
Marie Antoinette loved the modern-day version of hot chocolate.
We know Marie Antoinette for more than one reason, for being guillotined, for her advice to hungry civilians to have cakes if they don’t have bread. But do you know that she is also known for her love for hot chocolate that was served to her in the palace of Versailles?
The first solid chocolate was invented by British Confectioners in the year 1847.
In 1847, British Confectioners, The Fry and Sons made the first solid chocolate bar. They did it by mixing chocolate liquor, cocoa butter and sugar.
Chocolate has a particular melting point.
Do you know the reason why your favourite chocolate just melts in your mouth? It is because it has a particular rather special melting point. It is the same as the human body’s temperature, around 93 ֯ F.
Chocolate as currency?
Chocolate is precious, and people from Aztec and Mayan civilization would agree with us on this account as chocolate or cocoa beans were used as baseline currency.
What other chocolate facts you know about?
