Chocolate Facts – 50 Interesting Facts About Chocolates

Chocolate Facts

There are 42 beans in 1 pod of cocoa.

Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica.

Americans buy 58 millions pounds of chocolate on Valentines Day, it is 5% of sales of entire year.

Cocoa trees can live up to 200 years but they only produce marketable cocoa beans for only 25 years.

Cocoa seeds were used as a form of currency by Aztecs.

13^th September is celebrated as International Chocolate Day.

Chocolate though is having high fat content, it doesn’t seem to raise blood cholesterol.

Napoleon Bonaparte always carried chocolate along with him; he ate it whenever he feels he needed energy.

Flavonoids in cocoa products have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-clogging effects and reduces the risk of diabetes by improving insulin activity.

Cocoa and cacao are same, and they are interchangeable.