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10 inacurate ideas people tend to believe about chocolate

Hamza Ammar | November 11, 2019 | 1 min read
      • Invented in Switzerland? Actually chocolate was first used thousands of years ago by Aztecs and Mayan and wasn’t known in Switzerland until recently.
      • Mainly imported from Latin Americans? It’s true that it was first known in Latin American countries but Africa is considered the #1 exporter of cocoa beans.
      • White chocolate are regular chocolate with milk flavor? Not really…. Technically, milk chocolate is not even chocolate! It only includes cocoa butter to help in melting.
      • It’s harmful for the teeth? On the contrary, It’s very healthy for the teeth
      • Chocolate is good for pets? Quite the opposite actually… Cats and dogs might get sick if you feed them chocolate.
      • It causes stress? The smell of chocolate is proved to activate brain cells that help in relaxation.
      • The most popular companies are not German or Belgian! Historically, British companies like Hershey, Cadbury and the Swiss Nestle are the most popular market leaders in the industry.
      • Chocolate include Alcohol? It’s true that some brands and types of chocolate do include alcohol as part of the ingredients but generally speaking it does not include any other ingredients that the classic ones.
      • Chocolate sold the same way everywhere? Not true. Chinese people don’t buy chocolate bars wrapped in blue and Japanese people tend to buy chocolate with green wrappers while people in the middle east tend to buy chocolates that don’t include alcohol
      • It’s always expected that males buy chocolate as gifts for girls? In Japan, females buy chocolate for the males on the Valentine’s Day not the opposite.

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