I 💖 Chocolate
...all kinds of chocolate
The world eats a lot of chocolate, but how much do we actually know about this popular food? If you’re a fan of the sweet stuff, you’ll enjoy finding out more with these interesting chocolate facts.
Some facts about chocolate:
- Each cacao tree produces approximately 2,500 beans.
- Theobroma Cacao is the tree that produces cocoa beans, and it means “food of the gods.” Carolus Linnaeus, the father of plant taxonomy, named it.
- There are an estimated 1.5 million cocoa farms in West Africa.
- The average size of a cocoa farm in West Africa is 7 to 10 acres.
- Benjamin Franklin sold chocolate in his print shop in Philadelphia.
- An Indonesian cocoa farming community built a giant statue of hands holding a cocoa pod.
- Spanish royalty gave cakes of cacao in their dowries.
- “Cacao” is how you say “cocoa” in Spanish.
Learn more about chocolate on History.com