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 A
1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar
has only 220 calories.
A 1.75 oz. serving of potato
chips has 230 calories.
A recent study indicates
when men crave food, they
tend to crave fat and salt.
When women crave food, they
tend to desire chocolate.
American and Russian space
flights have always included
chocolate.
American chocolate manufacturers
use about 1.5 billion pounds
of milk -- only surpassed
by the cheese and ice cream
industries.
Americans consumed over
3.1 billion pounds of chocolate
in 2001, which is almost
half of the total world's
production.
Aztec emperor Montezuma
drank 50 golden goblets
of hot chocolate every day.
It was thick, dyed red and
flavored with chili peppers.
Bittersweet chocolate is
what is usually called for
in baking. It contains more
chocolate liquor
(at least 35%) and less
sugar than sweet chocolate.
Semisweet chocolate contains
15% - 35% chocolate liquor.
CAFFEINE CONTENT
White chocolate 3ounce bar
or 1 cup chips
Caffeine 0.0 mg
Theobromine 0.0 mg
Baking chocolate, unsweetened
1 ounce
Caffeine 57.120 mg
Theobromine 346.360 mg
Semisweet chocolate 1 ounce
(chocolate chips)
Caffeine 17.577 mg
Theobromine 137.781mg
Milk Chocolate 1.55 ounce
bar
Caffeine 11.440 mg
Theobromine 74.360 mg
Chocolate contains phenylethylamine
(PEA), a natural substance
that is reputed to stimulate
the same reaction in the
body as falling in love.
Chocolate manufacturers
currently use 40 percent
of the world's almonds and
20 percent of the world's
peanuts.
Chocolate syrup was used
for blood in the famous
45 second shower scene in
Alfred Hitchcock's movie,
Psycho, which actually took
7 days to shoot.
Chocolate Timeline:
1824: John Cadbury, an English
Quaker, begins roasting
and grinding chocolate beans
to sell in his tea and coffee
shop.
In 1842 Cadbury's Chocolate
Company in England creates
the first chocolate bar.
1875: A Swiss chocolate
maker, Daniel Peter, mixes
Henri Nestle's con- densed
milk with chocolate and
the two men found a company
to manufacture the first
milk chocolate.
1894: Milton Hershey adds
a line of chocolate to his
caramel manufacturing business.
Soon he invents the Hershey
Bar by experimenting with
milk chocolate. Hershey's
Cocoa appears next.
1896: Leonard Hershfield
invents the Tootsie Roll,
named after his daughter.
1897: Brownies are first
mentioned in print, listed
for sale in the Sears, Roebuck
and Co. catalogue.
About 1900: A machine called
the enrober is invented
to replace the task of hand-dipping
chocolate.
1930: Franklin Mars invents
the Snickers Bar.
1939: Nestle introduces
semisweet chocolate morsels.
1940: The Mars company invents
M&M's for soldiers going
to World War II.
Chocolate was introduced
into the United States in
1765 when cocoa beans were
brought from the West Indies
to Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Cocoa butter is the natural
fat of the cocoa bean. It
has a delicate chocolate
aroma, but is very bitter
tasting. It is used to give
body, smoothness, and flavor
to eating chocolate.
In the United States, approximately
seven billion pounds of
chocolate and candy are
manufactured each year.
It's a common myth that
chocolate aggravates acne.
Experiments conducted at
the University of Pennsylvania
and the U.S. Naval Academy
found that consumption of
chocolate -- even frequent
daily dietary intake --
had no effect on the incidence
of acne. Professional dermatologists
today do not link acne with
diet.
One plain milk chocolate
candy bar has more protein
than a banana.
Per capita, the Irish eat
more chocolate than Americans,
Swedes, Danes, French, and
Italians.
Pet parrots can eat virtually
any common "people-food"
except for chocolate and
avocados. Both of these
are highly toxic to the
parrot and can be fatal.
Ten percent of U.S. Recommended
Daily Allowance of iron
is found in one ounce of
baking chocolate or cocoa.
Chocolate also contains
Vitamins A1, B1, B2, C,
D and E as well as calcium,
potassium, sodium and iron.
The American Heart Association
recommends that daily cholesterol
intake not exceed 300 mg.
A chocolate bar is actually
low in cholesterol. A 1.65
oz. bar contains only 12
mg! A one oz piece of cheddar
cheese contains 30 mg of
cholesterol - more than
double the amount found
in a chocolate bar.
The average person will
consume 10,000 chocolate
bars in a lifetime.
The botanical name of the
chocolate plant is Theobramba
cacao, which means "Food
of the Gods."
The daughter of confectioner
Leo Hirschfield is commemorated
in the name of the sweet
he invented: Although his
daughter's real name was
Clara, she went by the nickname
Tootsie, and in her honor,
her doting father named
his chewy chocolate logs
Tootsie Rolls.
The earliest cocoa plantations
were established in 600
AD, in the Yucatan, by the
Mayans.
The fruit of the Cacao tree
grow directly from the trunk.
They look like small melons,
and the pulp inside contains
20 to 50 seeds or beans.
It takes about 400 beans
to make a pound of chocolate.
The Imperial torte, a square
chocolate cake with five
thin layers of almond paste,
was created by a master
pastry chef at the court
of Emperor Franz Joseph
(1830 - 1916).
The melting point of cocoa
butter is just below the
human body temperature --
which is why it literally
melts in your mouth.
The Swiss consume more chocolate
per capita than any other
nation on earth. That's
22 pounds each compared
to 11 pounds per person
in the United States.
The term "white chocolate"
is a misnomer. Under Fedaral
Standards of Identity, real
chocolate must contain chocolate
liquor. "White"
chocolate contains no chocolate
liquor.
The theobromine in chocolate
that stimulates the cardiac
and nervous systems is too
much for dogs, especially
smaller pups. A chocolate
bar is poisonous to dogs
and can even be lethal.
The world's first chocolate
candy was produced in 1828
by Dutch chocolate-maker
Conrad J. Van Houten. He
pressed the fat from roasted
cacao beans to produce cocoa
butter, to which he added
cocoa powder and sugar.
There were 1,040 US manufacturing
establishments producing
chocolate and cocoa products
in 2001. These establishments
employed 45,913 people and
shipped $12 billion worth
of goods that year. California
led the nation in the number
of chocolate and cocoa manufacturing
establishments (with 116)
followed by Pennsylvania
(with 107). * US Census
Bureau, October, 2003 |
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