Chocolate Fact Book

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Chocolate Fact Book

By: The Students in Mrs. Borich¶s

and Ms. Keacher¶s Third Grade Class



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.



Jessica Bedo

White chocolate

contains no caffeine.

Chocolate contains thegood kind of

cholesterol.



Malik Harvey

On average Americans

eat almost a half a

pound of chocolate aday.



Sasha Robinson

Chocolate isAmerica¶s favoriteflavor. A recent surveyrevealed that 52% of U.S. adults said theylike chocolate best.

The second favorite

flavor was a tie between berry flavorsand vanilla.



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 almonds21 million lbs of coconut

19 million lbs of other nuts



William Mulvin

Chocolate contains

the good kind of

cholesterol.



Elexus Fizer

Chocolate contains the good kind of

cholesterol.



Jeremy Dillon

Cocoa and chocolate

are rich in minerals

that the body needs,including magnesium

and iron.



Ryant Parker

The FDA reviewed a

study and found that

chocolate does notcause acne.



Tajah Green

A one ounce piece of

milk chocolate has

about the same amountof caffeine as cup of

decaffeinated coffee.



Daniel Dowell

More than $1 billion

in boxed chocolate

sales are estimated between Thanksgiving

and New Year¶s.



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.



Ryan Alexander Hofer

According to a

nationwide survey

done by TheChocolate

Manufactures

Association, 63% of

Americans can¶t resist buying chocolate for

someone else.



Tony Lamar Long

According to anationwide surveydone by The

ChocolateManufacturesAssociation, 51% of Americans choose

what chocolate theyeat by the shape of the piece.



NaJee¶ Williams

The first chocolate

box was introduced

by Richard Cadburyin 1868 , when he

decorated a candy box

with a painting of his

young daughter holding a kitten in her

arm.



Joshua Payment

Seventy-one percent

of Americans

chocolate eaters prefer milk chocolate.



Shatina Chiles

In 1930, Ruth

Wakefield invented

the modern dayversion of the

chocolate chip cookie.



Kyle Hill

Milk chocolate ismade when cocoa powder is combined

with cocoa butter,sugar, and milk power

Dark chocolate ismade when cocoa

powder is combinedwith only cocoa butter and sugar.



Courtney Star Shipman

Chocolate comes from the cocoa beans,

Cocoa comes from the Aztec word

³cacahualt,¶¶ which stands for ³food of theGods.´

It was first found in 1591 by Spanish

Explorer Herman Cortez in Mexico.



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/facts_about_chocolate_.html

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