Do YOU Like CHOCOLATE? / myLot

Chocolate - Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods that originate from the bean of the tropical cacao tree. It is a common ingredient in many kinds of sweets such as chocolate candy, ice creams, cookies, cakes, pies, chocolate mousse, and other desserts. It is one of the more popular flavours in the world.

Chocolate was created by the Mesoamerican civilization, from cacao beans, and cultivated by pre-Columbian civilizations such as the Maya and Aztec, who used it as a basic component in a variety of sauces and beverages. The cocoa beans were ground and mixed with water to produce a variety of beverages, both sweet and bitter, which were reserved only to the highest noblemen and clerics of the Mesoamerican world. The word "chocolate" comes from the Nahuatl words Xocol meaning "bitter" and Atl meaning "water". Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted, and ground beans taken from the pod of the tropical cacao tree, Theobroma cacao, which was native to Central America and Mexico, but is now cultivated throughout the tropics. The beans have an intensely flavored bitter taste. The resulting products are known as "chocolate" or, in some parts of the world, cocoa.[1]

@risk_taker20 (2096)

Philippines

December 17, 2006 8:39am CST

What kind of chocolate and what brand? Why you love it?I love chocolate, can't get enough of it. Although have to be careful also because we have diabetes history in the family. Read throughTRIVIA: # Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate. # U.S. consumers eat about 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate annually, making per capita consumption about 12 pounds (5.44 kg) per person a year. # American chocolate producers use about 1.5 million pounds of milk. # Chocolate has over 500 flavors components, more than twice the amount found in strawberry and vanilla. # Switzerland has the highest chocolate consumption in the world with an average of 10 kg (22 pounds) per person per year.

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