Chocolate Fact Book

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Chocolate Fact Book

• By The Students in Mrs. Borichs and Ms.
  Keachers Third Grade Class

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Trevor Krey

• Cocoa trees produce pods that are the size of a
  pineapple.
• Inside these pods there are between 20 and 50
  cream colored seeds.
• The beans are taken out of the pods and begin a
  process of fermentation that last 3 to 9 days.

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Jessica Bedo

• White chocolate contains no caffeine.
• Chocolate contains the good kind of
  cholesterol.

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Malik Harvey

• On average Americans eat almost a half a pound of
  chocolate a day.

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Sasha Robinson

• Chocolate is Americas favorite flavor. A recent
  survey revealed that 52 of U.S. adults said they
  like chocolate best.
• The second favorite flavor was a tie between
  berry flavors and vanilla.

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Franchesque Emondma Gomez

• To create sweet treats for Americans each year
  the US Confectionary industry uses approximately
• 598 million lbs of Cocoa beans
• 255 million lbs of milk chocolate coating
• 320 million lbs of peanuts
• 42 million lbs of almonds
• 21 million lbs of coconut
• 19 million lbs of other nuts

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William Mulvin

• Chocolate contains the good kind of
  cholesterol.

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Elexus Fizer

• Chocolate contains the good kind of cholesterol.

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Jeremy Dillon

• Cocoa and chocolate are rich in minerals that
  the body needs, including magnesium and iron.

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Ryant Parker

• The FDA reviewed a study and found that
  chocolate does not cause acne.

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Tajah Green

• A one ounce piece of milk chocolate has about
  the same amount of caffeine as cup of
  decaffeinated coffee.

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Daniel Dowell

• More than 1 billion in boxed chocolate sales are
  estimated between Thanksgiving and New Years.

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Vincent Rogers

• According to a nationwide survey done by The
  Chocolate Manufactures Association, approximately
  60 of Americans said they gave boxed chocolate
  as a winter holiday gift.

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Ryan Alexander Hofer

• According to a nationwide survey done by The
  Chocolate Manufactures Association, 63 of
  Americans cant resist buying chocolate for
  someone else.

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Tony Lamar Long

• According to a nationwide survey done by The
  Chocolate Manufactures Association, 51 of
  Americans choose what chocolate they eat by the
  shape of the piece.

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NaJee Williams

• The first chocolate box was introduced by
  Richard Cadbury in 1868 , when he decorated a
  candy box with a painting of his young daughter
  holding a kitten in her arm.

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Joshua Payment

• Seventy-one percent of Americans chocolate eaters
  prefer milk chocolate.

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Shatina Chiles

• In 1930, Ruth Wakefield invented the modern day
  version of the chocolate chip cookie.

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Kyle Hill

• Milk chocolate is made when cocoa powder is
  combined with cocoa butter, sugar, and milk
  power
• Dark chocolate is made when cocoa powder is
  combined with only cocoa butter and sugar.

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Courtney Star Shipman

• Chocolate comes from the cocoa beans, Cocoa comes
  from the Aztec word cacahualt, which stands
  for food of the Gods.
• It was first found in 1591 by Spanish Explorer
  Herman Cortez in Mexico.

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Resources for Chocolate Facts

• www.skipscandycorner.com/Facts.html
• www.wfchocolate.com/didyouknow/html
• www.shop.store.yahoo.com/chevalierchoc/
  chocrec.html
• www.geocities.com/chocolatecorner/fun.html
• www.5starchocolates.com/history
• www.chocolatebydesign.com/Pages/Facts.html
• www.handmade-gourmet-chocolate-candy.com/html/fact
  s_about_chocolate_.html