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Chocolates Chocolate! A word that is capable of arousing a lot of feelings. The very mention of the word chocolate can make your salivary glands work. It grows on an evergreen tree. The scientific name given to that tree is Thobroma cacao, which means ‘food of the God’. The Mayas were the first to discover chocolate and believed it had miraculous powers. It was used in religious rituals as well as treatment for common illnesses such as fever, cough and pregnancy pains. They did not sweeten it because they didn’t know about sugar and they used it as exotic spice. But since then a lot has changed in the world of chocolates. With support of all the latest technology and research and development, chocolate has come a long way. There is a wide variety of chocolates available in the market today. Mint chocolate, hazelnut chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, fruit chocolate... the list is endless. But why eat chocolate?
Like the unlimited varieties of chocolates available, there can be unlimited number of reasons as well. But the most common reasons can sure be counted. Like, using it as a way to show love, to have a quick bite to keep that pang of hunger at bay. For some, chocolate is the way out of everyday stress! As tempting as chocolate may be, it is very much avoided, especially by those on a diet. The combination plus sugar and vegetable fat makes the number of calories grow at an alarming rate. Reasonable and moderate quantity will surely not affect your weight, but consumed in industrial quantities it might give you some problems. Calorie and nutrient count may vary from brand to brand, variety to variety but in general, it goes like this: The break up for 100 gms of chocolate goes like this: calories - 530, carbohydrates - 57.1 gms, proteins - 7.8 gms, fat - 29.9 gms, fibre - 0, alcohol - 0.
Fascinating Facts • A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. • A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. • The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward! • Russia lies across 11 time zones. • Ancient Rome became the first city to reach a population of one million in 5 B.C. It would be more than eighteen centuries before the second such city, London, would reach that milestone in 1800.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. • One of the greatest soldiers in history, Alexander the Great, was tutored by the greatest thinker of all time, Aristotle.
• Great Britain was the first country to issue stamps in 1840. • The designer of the Statue of Liberty, French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, used his wife as the model for the body and his mother as the model for the face.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
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