▫️ What are its origins?
Anthropologists from the University of Pennsylvania announced the discovery of cacao residue on pottery excavated in Honduras that could date back as far as 1400 B.C.E. It appears that the sweet pulp of the cacao fruit, which surrounds the beans, was fermented into an alcoholic beverage of the time.
You can read more about it here.
▫️ Can chocolate really be healhty?
Small studies suggest that cocoa, an ingredient in chocolate, may have health benefits.
It's possible that certain nutrients in cocoa could improve heart health and boost brain function, especially in older adults.
Read more about it here.
▫️ Here are some things about chocolate that you might have not known of before:
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Chocolate was once money that literally grew on trees. 🤑
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Chocolate wasn't always solid or sweet.
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White chocolate isn't really chocolate.
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Chocolate does funny things to our brains.
Read the whole thing here.
We all know about the Easter bunnies & chocolates, but did you know about le Poisson d'Avril? AKA April's Fools Day in France or April's Fish. 🇫🇷
Back then, fish were a popular New Year's gift (read about the theory of the confusion from those days
here),
so the April pranksters took to distributing fake fish made of paper to unsuspecting friends and neighbors.
This eventually evolved into the practice of tacking a paper fish onto the backs of prank victims — and hoping it would remain undiscovered for as long as possible.
A kinder tradition of giving out “fish” made of bread or sweets emerged later. But even today, the phrase “donner un poisson” (to give a fish) means to play a trick on someone.
👩🏻💻 Coded by Ana Baldelomar.
