Saturday 17 June 2017

Food Report - Chocolate

Chocolate
Chocolate is a food and a seasoning that is popular throughout countries. Many sweet things contain chocolate like sweet crunchy biscuits, huge cakes, tasty chocolate drinks, creamy brown chocolate sweets.

How chocolate is made?
It begins with seeds from the cocoa tree. The cocoa trees comes from North and South America, Africa and also from Asia. The seeds become long as cucumber shaped fruits called pods. When the pods become ripe, the workers cut them from the tree and take the seeds. The seeds need to rest for a lot of days, before they are dried, either by the sun or in an oven. When the seeds are dried they are called cocoa beans. After that they are shipped to processing plants or to the chocolate factories.

Nutrition.
Lots of chocolate is high in fats and sugar.  That's why eating lots of chocolate can be bad for your health. It’s been connected with high levels of obesity in more economically developed countries, from places where choco bars and other chocolate foods are popular.

Although chocolate is bad for you if you eat too much, it is a high energy food and it also contains a material called antioxidants, which is good for you.  

Historical facts about chocolate.
Chocolate began in ancient Mexico and central America, where cacao trees grew. People organized a flaming hot, unsweetened drink with cocoa beans. Chocolate was one of the first items to be made as part of the fair trade scheme.

Interesting Facts
Did you know people should never feed chocolate to a dog, because a chemical in chocolate makes dogs sick.


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