Chocolate Tidbits

It’s about time that we learned some more fabulous fun facts about chocolate so take a look through some of these fun chocolate facts!

- Kuna, a Pacific island, drink five cups of cocoa each day and have low blood pressure.

- The Baby Ruth candy bar is actually named after President Cleveland’s daughter and not the famed baseball player Babe Ruth.

- Mozart referenced chocolate in his opera “Cosi Fan Tutte”, he was a real chocolate fan.

- A brand of chocolate named ‘Freak Chocolate’ released flavors such as olive and cheese flavor chocolates!

- The street lamps on Hershey Pennsylvania’s main street are shaped like Hershey kisses!

-The original chocolate orange was actually a chocolate apple which stuck around for 20 years before finally disappearing.

- Italian researchers claim women who eat chocolate enjoy better sex lives than those who don’t.

- In the early 16th century when monks would have to fast for religious reasons they would over indulge in chocolate during their fastings to maintain a blood sugar high enough for performing their normal duties.

- In the nineteenth century English chocolate was tainted with Venetian lead.

- Radioactive Chocolates nicknamed “suicide bars” were made by Burk & Braun and sold in Germany from 1931 to 1936 and included waste from nuclear reactions in the bars. They were marketed as being good for your health.

- Procyanidin in chocolate reduces the chances of blood clots.

- A 1.4 ounce piece of milk chocolate contains about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of decaffeinated coffee

- Continental chocolate lovers have waged a 25-year battle to stop Britain and Ireland calling home-produced confectionery “milk chocolate” because of its 5% vegetable fat content – they want the British bars to be called “vegelate” instead.

- A plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

- German Chocolate Cake is named after Sam German of Dallas, Texas

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