10 Things You Didn’t Know About Chocolates

Every day of our life is like a special occasion. There is so much to celebrate in our life. So, celebrate each and every day full of joy and enthusiasm. Don't you think every celebration needs some sweets to complete its happiness? Yah! Of course, it is a good sign of happiness. Especially in India, at each and every celebration everyone eats sweets. The logging of sweets is really a love or sweetness.

If we are talking about sweets one sweet name came to our mind and i.e. CHOCOLATES. Cholocates are the delicious explosion in everyone's mouth. It is a happiness that we all can eat. It is a sweet way to celebrate our happiness. Chocolate doesn't ask any silly questions, it just understands our happiness.

Introduction

Chocolate describes a various number of raw and processed foods that originate from the tropical cacao tree. It is a very common ingredient in many kinds of sweets, candy, ice creams, cookies, cakes, pies, and desserts.

With a thousand flavor components and hundreds of chemicals that affect our mood, soothe the mind, and stimulate the taste buds, chocolate is one of the most popular foods in the world. It is also tied to romance and love, being both a favorite gift and positively related to our feelings of pleasure. However, there are also a number of health benefits associated with our favorite chocolate. The sugar and fat content generally found in various food is also correlated with obesity, and thus consumption requires discipline and moderation.

Some basic informtion

Chocolate is made from the fermented roasted, and toasted beans are taken from the pod of the tropical cacao tree Theobroma cacao. It was native to South America but is now cultivated throughout the tropics. The beans have an intensely flavored as bitter taste. The bean products are also known under different names in different parts of the world. In the American chocolate industry:

• Cocoa is the solids part of the cacao bean
• Its butter is the fat component
• Chocolate is a good combination of solids and the fat

Chocolates are a solid and fat combination that is sweetened with sugar and other ingredients, that is made into chocolate bars. It is commonly referred to as chocolate by the public.

It can also be made for beverages. The first chocolate was made in Europe.

Chocolate is regularly produced as small molded forms in the shape of animals, people, or inanimate objects to celebrate festivals worldwide. For instance, molds of rabbits or eggs, coins or Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus) forChritmas and hearts for Valentine's Day.

Benefits of chocolate

However, chocolates are not just for taste, but also very beneficial for our health. It helps in many things to manage our human body. Many of the health facts about chocolate are:-

1. It can reduce inflammation in the body

Inflammation can also lead to lots of health issues, from diseases to headaches to sore muscles. Chocolate can contain an anti-inflammatory effect throughout your system. It is helping to stave off diseases and keep you healthy.

2. It may prevent blood clots

Chocolates offer polyphenols that can increase blood flow. By widening your blood vessels and increasing blood flow also, it can help decrease your risk of blood clots.

3. It lowers your risk of major diseases

Rich in flavonoids (potent antioxidants), chocolate also works to help blood vessels relax, which decreases blood pressure. This leads to a plethora of benefits, like increasing HDL cholesterol and LDL  cholesterol, which can improve your heart health.

4. It could support your mind

Chocolates make you smile when you eat them, chocolate also has positive effects on the brain. It helps regulate the feel-good hormones serotonin and dopamine and can lift the mood.

Cocoa to improve attention, processing speed, and memory. It can keep your cognition in top shape.

5. It can increase your caloric intake

There are many other health benefits of dark chocolate, but if you don't stick to portion sizes, you could be consuming more calories than you'd like. Dark chocolate contains about 170 calories per ounce, which could add up if you go beyond a daily serving. This same for milk or white chocolate which can soar above 200 calories per serving.

6. It could help with your weight

For gaining weight, chocolate may play a role in reducing insulin resistance and keeping blood sugar levels in check

Chocolate could reduce body weight and BMI in healthy individuals If you take at 30 grams a day or more between four and eight weeks. It could help obese individuals at risk of insulin resistance by reducing oxidative stress and inflammation.

Some interesting facts

There are wow and amazing facts that you never know about chocolates. So, let's start with how it will make you shocked for your favorite thing.

1. White chocolate is not chocolate.

White Chocolate doesn't contain cocoa solids or chocolate liquor, white chocolate isn't chocolate in the strict sense. But it has contain parts of the cacao bean mainly cocoa butter.

2. The Number Of Chocolate Flavours Available Across The Globe

It is said that in chocolates there are more than 500 flavors available, while wine has just only about 200. It is so interesting that there are more flavors of chocolate than wine WOW!!! Amazing to know this great fact. Wonder how many have you tasted?

3. Cacao Trees Are Immortal, Almost

Is it surprising that Cacao trees, which are tropical beauties, may actually live up to 200 years? However, interestingly, they produce beans only just 25 years of their lifespan. It is really shocking about this sweet tree.

4. Our favorite Hot chocolate was the first chocolate treat.

 Though the result was nothing like today’s hot chocolate—it was a typically bitter concoction that was often used for ceremonial occasions like weddings and other occasions too.

5. Milk Chocolate Was Invented In Switzerland

Daniel Peter created milk chocolate in 1875. It is known that it took him about eight years to get to this recipe. Condensed milk ended up becoming the main key ingredient of milk chocolate. This is also a great fact about chocolate.

6. Cadbury invented the heart-shaped box of chocolate.

Cadbury is the first company to invent the heart-shaped box of our favorite chocolate. You needed to pick up a last-minute for your love. Yes! say thanks to Cadbury who made this beautiful sweet for us.

7. Baker's chocolate isn't just for baking.

 That’s where the term called Bakers chocolate comes from, not to denote chocolate that’s just meant for cooking. A chocolate company called Walter Baker Chocolate.

8. Chocolate Milk Could Be A Post-Workout Recovery Drink

Chocolate milk gives carbohydrate replenishment to your muscles. As it is used after the workout to make muscles so strong and perfect for our health.

9. Chocolate has a special melting point.

Chocolate has a special melting point between 86°F and 90°F, which is just below the human body temperature.  Wow! that's great. That’s why our favorite candy bar melt will melt in your hands if you don't eat it fast enough.

10. Cacao was once used as currency.

We loved and valued the cacao bean so highly that they used it as currency during the height of their civilization. This is really surprising and shocking. Chocolate that we eat as a symbol of happiness is used as a currency too.

Conclusion

This is how chocolate facts, I think we even don't know. Yeah, I know that it's so interesting. How surprising that chocolate plays various roles in our life. We need to add this to our daily routine to see the good results for our bodies. I hope you like this article and know many knowledgeable things that you should know. So, say happiness with chocolate.

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