Historia de Chocolate
True or false, Chocolate was a currency during Mayan Times.
What is... TRUE
How many wedges of chocolate are there in one Abuelitas tablet?
What is... 8
Children are being trafficked in everyday to work on cocoa farms as slaves. True or False?
True- Children are being trafficked in everyday to work on cocoa farms as slaves. The average cost for a child is $250.
Chocolate in it's purest form is very healthy, what ingredient makes it potentially unhealthy?
What is sugar.
Which country eats the most chocolate?
What is USA.
What is Chocolate made from? (What item from nature).
Abuelita is a kind of Mexican hot chocolate typically called "Chocolate de mesa" which would be what in English?
What is Table Chocolate
Originally Mesoamerica was responsible for the original first chocolate production and trees, Which area is currently the lead producer of cacao beans?
What is West Africa- 70% of all chocolate comes from this area.
True or False, Chocolate contains healthy antioxidants.
TRUE!
What is the name of the African country where almost all choco beans come from?
What is the Ivory Coast.
True or False: The Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 cups of cacao a day, which is why the nickname for digestive problems is called "Montezuma's revenge."
False- While Montezume did indeed enjoy many cups of cacao per day, the name itself comes from Moctezuma II, the ruler of the Aztec civilization who was defeated and slaughtered by Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador. The white Spainiards would then continue to enslave or obliterate the Aztec people. But his revenge is simply the condition that happens to many tourists while traveling to Mexico... their bowels need time to adjust.
Who makes Abuelita today? (What company)
What is Nestle
What do Africa, Asia and central/south America have in common that helps them produce cacao beans?
These countries are all within 20 degrees of the equator
True or False: The average serving of milk chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of decaf coffee.
What is... TRUE
What ingredient was originally a big part of the original chocolate drink which was consumed by the Aztec and Mayan people?
What is CHILE
“_________” is how you say “cocoa” in Spanish.
What is “Cacao”
What was the name of the company who originally owned Abuelitas, when it was created- Fabrica Hershey, Quaker Oats, or Fabrica de Chocolates La Azteca
What is: Fabrica de Chocolates La Azteca
Fabrica de Chocolates La Azteca, as it is formally known, began a new chapter in its history when last December it was acquired by Nestle after being sold by Quaker Oats, which had owned it since 1970.
What is the current global market value of an annual crop of cacao beans, 1.1 billion, 10.5 billion or 5.1 billion dollars.
Current global market value of annual crop: 5.1 billion dollars
Professor David Kennedy who is Director of Brain, Performance and Nutrition at the Research Center of Northumbria University (UK), performed a study where Participants were given 500 mg of flavanols in a hot cocoa drink. This would, supposedly, help blood flow to the brain so students would be better able to perform which school subject?
What is MATH. Students who ate chocolate benefited from increased flow to the brain and were better at coping with difficult math equations.
Pineapple lumps or pineapple chunks are a chocolate-covered confection with a soft, chewy pineapple-flavoured middle from _________.
What is New Zealand
Chocolate was first a beverage, but how was it drunk by the Mayans and the Aztecs, hot or cold? (Or, did one prefer it hot and the other cold?)
What is... the Aztecs preferred it cold, whilst the Maya preferred it hot!
Abuelitas has been around a long time, in what year was it originally invest and commercialized... 1920, 1939, 1950
What is 1939
There are over 27 million slaves in the world today. How many are children?
Nine million
Is chocolate a health food?
A highly debated question- ultimately however, the answer is NO. Even dark chocolate will often contain high calories and fat levels- and most chocolate consumed will also contain milk and sugar. Like all things, it is only health in moderation!
Milton Hershey purchased land in which country in order to easily obtain sugar for his chocolate factory in Hershey, Pensylvania.
Cuba! Hershey Cuba barely exists anymore and today the town has been renamed as Camilo Cienfuegos.