Mmm, chocolate. Who can resist her? Chocolate is the weak point of many of us, who could give up all the sweets in the world, but never chocolate. Here are 10 delicious facts about chocolate that you probably don't know!
1. Chocolate and Nobel laureates
Chocolate greater cognitive abilities of people. And as hair-raising as it sounds: research has shown that there is an actual one correlation between the amount of chocolate, which is consumed on average by a resident of a country and among the number of Nobel laureates in this country.
2. The healing effects of chocolate
Chocolate has healing effects. It has been proven to work as antidepressant, because eating chocolate increases the secretion of the hormone serotonin, which gives us a feeling of joy. Also chocolate helps with high pressure and premenstrual syndromes, as it contains a lot of magnesium. At the same time, just under 30 grams of edible chocolate contains as much as 10% of the recommended daily amount of consumed iron.
3. The smell of chocolate in bookstores
Research from 2013 showed that the smell of chocolate in bookstores affects customers in such a way that 40% more likely to buy cookbooks or romance novels, and sales of any book genre increase by about 22%.
4. Where the most chocolate is sold
The most chocolate in the world is sold in Brussels Airport: the vendors there sell more than 800 tons of chocolate every year.
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5. Chocolate as a source of energy
Chocolate is a rich source of energy, because just one piece of chocolate gives us enough energy to walk a good 45 meters (and think about how many meters that is, if about 7 billion pieces of chocolate are consumed per year!). In addition, chocolate is supposed to be used for energy during battles even Napoleon himself gnawed.
6. Chocolate in the movie Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock is in one of the most famous shower scenes from the movie Psycho used chocolate syrup for the blood.
7. White "chocolate"
Let's not blind ourselves anymore: white chocolate not really any chocolate. There is not a single particle of cocoa in it - and cocoa is the ingredient that makes chocolate chocolate in the first place.
8. Selling chocolate on Valentine's Day
More than are sold on Valentine's Day in America alone 26 thousand tons of chocolate – which is as much as 5% of sales for the whole year.
9. Chocolate and acne
Scientists have proven that there is really no connection between chocolate and acne. Flavonoids, which are in cocoa and chocolate in reality improve the appearance of the skin. However, be careful: the amount of sugar in milk chocolates does not have the best effect on the skin.
10. Chocolate as an aphrodisiac
Chocolate is already famous Casanova mixed with champagne and used it to attract women, believing that the mixture worked as an aphrodisiac. Today, the opinions of scientists about chocolate as an aphrodisiac differ, but some studies confirm that the effects of chocolate on women are much greater than on men and that the consumption of chocolate should increased their sex drive. And another fun fact: Madame du Barry, the last official mistress of the French King Louis XV, who she has a reputation as a nymphomaniac, she allegedly encouraged her men to drink chocolate so they could keep up with her pace.
