History
These were the first people known to have made chocolate.
Who were the Mayans and the Aztecs?
These are the three main constituents of chocolate.
What are cocoa solids, milk solids, and sugar?
Cacao trees grow in this type of forest.
What is the rainforest?
This chocolate company is the largest purchaser of almonds in North America.
What is the Hershey Chocolate Company?
This was the preferred form of enjoying chocolate 2,000 years ago.
What is a beverage?
This process of heating and melting the chocolate stabilizes the cocoa butter crystals so that they are more uniform in size, making the chocolate shiny.
What is tempering?
Cacao trees only grow within a limited proximity to this global line of demarcation that separates the hemispheres.
What is the equator?
The inventor of the chocolate chip cookie sold her recipe to this chocolate company in exchange for a lifetime supply of free chocolate.
What is Nestle Toll House?
This ancient group of Meso-American people used cocoa as a form of currency.
Who were the Aztecs?
This is the scientific name of the cacao plant.
What is Theobroma cacao?
The continent on which 70% of the world's chocolate is grown.
What is Africa?
40% of the world's supply of this nut is used in chocolate manufacturing.
What are almonds?
This explorer brought the first cocoa beans back to Europe.
What is Christopher Columbus?
A 1 ounce serving of dark chocolate contains 16% of your recommending daily serving of this macromineral, which is important for restful sleep, energy production, and muscle and nerve function.
What is magnesium?
This European city is considered the chocolate capital of the world - it has more chocolatiers per square foot than any other city.
What is Brussels, Belgium?
This is typically the trend in chocolate sales during times of recession.
What is an increase in sales?
In this European country chocolate was a state monopoly that could be consumed only by members of the royal court.
What is France?
This alkaloid found in chocolate causes chocolate toxicity in dogs.
What is theobromine?
About 47% of the total US imports of cocoa beans come from this West African country?
What is Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast)?
What are the two byproducts of the processed cacao bean?
What is cocoa powder and cocoa butter.