Chocolate Facts
True or False: Milk Chocolate is better for you than Dark Chocolate?
What is false? Studies have shown that Dark chocolate can lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease in moderation.
Who were the first groups of people to discover chocolate and cacao beans?
Who were The Olmec and Ancient Mayans?
This is the plant that produces the seeds used to make chocolate.
What is a cacao tree/ cacao pod?
This company is known for several famous treats, including Twizzlers, Reese's, and Kisses.
What is Hershey?
True or False: White Chocolate doesn't contain any actual chocolate.
What is True? White chocolate is sugar, cocoa butter, and milk solids. There is no cocoa in white chocolate, so technically it is not actually chocolate.
True or False: Ancient Mayans made a chocolate beverage with chilies?
What is True? Mayan chocolate was brewed from ground cacao seeds, chilies, water, and cornmeal and drunk as a beverage.
The byproduct that is produced when cocoa beans are ground up and pressed in a chocolate press. This gets extracted from the beans and used as an ingredient in chocolate.
What is cocoa butter?
The Mars Wrigley Confectionary Company came up with this famous slogan for which of their products?
"Melts in your mouth, NOT in your hands!"
What are M&Ms?
Dark chocolate is known for having a more ________ flavor than Milk chocolate.
What is bitter?
True or False: The Invention of the Printing Press in 1828 revolutionized the production of chocolate.
What is False? The Chocolate Press was the invention that revolutionized Chocolate Production.
The Cacao tree can only grow in tropical, humid environments. Most Cacao trees grow near this part of the Planet.
What is the Equator?
Ghirardelli Squares and Lindor Truffles are both made by this Swiss Chocolate Company.
What is Lindt?
True or False: the word "Chocolate" comes from the Mayan word "Xocolatl," which means "tasty treat."
What are False? The word "xocolatl" means "bitter water."
Who was the Spanish Explorer that was introduced to chocolate by the Aztecs and brought chocolate back to Europe in the 1500s?
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The best selling chocolate bar in the U.S., the Mars Wrigley Company named this chocolate bar after one of the Mars Family's favorite horses.
What is Snickers?
This is the biggest holiday for chocolate sales every year in the U.S.
What is Easter?
2018 U.S. retail sales of chocolate, by holiday:
Swiss chocolate maker Daniel Peter and his friend founded this company and invented the first milk chocolate in 1876.
What is the Nestle Company?
The part of a cacao bean that gets ground up and eventually turned into chocolate.
What is the Cacao Nib?
This is the largest chocolate manufacturer in the world.
(Hint: They make M&Ms!)
What is the Mars Wrigley Confectionary Company?