History
This is where the cacao tree originates.
What is the Amazons?
or...
What is the Amazon Basin of South America?
Small servings of chocolate ___ LDL (bad cholesteral) and ____ HDL (good cholesteral).
(2 part answer).
What is lower?
What is raise?
This is the english translation of the new name Carl Linneaus gave the cacao tree. The name, "theobroma cacao," is derived from Greek.
What is "food of the gods"?
This ingredient was added to create the "melt in your mouth" texture in modern chocolate.
What is cocoa butter?
This is the year that Milton S. Hershey sold his first Hershey bar in Pennsylvania. He used modern mass-production techniques, which allowed for cheaper pricing, making it affordable to everyone.
When was 1895?
or
When was the 1890s?
This is the country where milk chocolate was first produce using condensed milk.
What is Switzerland?
In the 1700s, chocolate, a confection, was used as a ____ for medicines.
What is flavouring?
(variations are accepted)
The average chocolate bar contains ____ grams of sugar.
What is 25 grams?
Between tea and chocolate, [blank] has possesses more theobromine, a stimulant.
What is chocolate?
In the Mayan culture, cocoa pods symbolized what two things?
What is fertility and life?
This was the cause of a chocolate bar strike in 1947.
What is the 60% increase in the price of a 3 oz chocolate bar? (variatons accepted)
This type of chocolate is one of the top antioxidant foods, suprassing many "superfoods".
What is dark chocolate?
These two British chocolate companies created a legend with their corporate espionage, which inspired Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
What was Cadbury and Rowntree?
These two fatty acids are found in chocolate.
What are stearic and palmitic acids?
This British company was the first to develope solid eating chocolate.
What was J.S. Fry & Sons?
This is when the Cacao tree originates in the Amazon Basin of South America.
When is the time period 8,000-2,000 BC?
The Mayans had these three uses for chocolate.
What are chocolate drinks, currency, and units of calculation?
In 1795, Dr. Joseph Fry of Bristol, England, used a ______ to grind cocoa beans.
What is a steam engine?
This chemical, along with caffeine, is very toxic to dogs and cats and makes chocolate poisounous for them. In dogs, it can go as far as to cause seizures, comas, and death.
What is theobromine?
This pope declared that drinking chocolate did not, in fact, break Catholic fast in 1569.
Who was Pope Pius V?
This person was the first to introduce chocolate to the English colonies in 1755.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The Aztecs used chocolate for these cultural purposes.
What are religious rituals and sacrifices?
In this year, the world's tallest chocolate structure was unveiled at the FAO Schwartz toy store in NYC. (It stood over 20 feet tall).
What is 2006?
This molecule, whose chemical shape is nearly identical to the psychoactive chemical in marijuana, helps in producing the pleasure that comes from eating chocoalte.
What is anandamide?
This was a trendy meeting place where the elite London soceity gathered to talk and savor the new 'luxury' sensation of chocolate.
What are chocoalte houses?