Chocolate Facts

Dark chocolate and cheese have antibacterial properties that inhibit tooth decay, according to experts.

70% of people would give up alcohol and 63% would give up chocolate before they would give up their cell phones.

Most people with chocolate allergies are actually allergic to the ground-up cockroach parts found in every batch, not the chocolate itself. The average chocolate bar contains eight insect pieces; the FDA allows 60 insect pieces per 100 grams of chocolate.

Chocolate milk was invented by an Irishman in Jamaica in the 1680s — He then brought it back to Europe, where it was sold as medicine.

The world’s oldest person lived to be 122-years-old. She said it was her diet of olive oil, port wine, and 1 Kg of chocolate a week.

Chocolate contains a small amount of the marijuana-like chemical anandamide which directly affects your brain’s pleasure center.

In Japan, Valentine’s Day is generally celebrated by women giving men chocolate and gifts. 14 March is White Day, when men “answer” this and give the women in their lives jewelry and chocolate.

”Jolabokaflod” is a Christmas Eve tradition in Iceland where friends and family get together to exchange books. Then everyone reads together while eating chocolate and drinking hot cocoa.

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