Chocolate Story

                                                 🍫 Chocolate Story🍫

Chocolate is like my national dish, especially if you donot want to get bored no matter how much you eat.🍫  But many people do not know what this chocolate dish that everyone lovers to eat is like.

Chocolate is a food product made from roasted and ground cacao pods, that is available as a liquid, solid or paste, on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civilization (19th-11th century BCE), and the majority of Mesoamerican people - including the Maya and Aztecs - made chocolate beverages.

The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop the flavor. After fermentation, the beans are dried, cleaned, and roasted. The shell is removed to produce cocoa nibs, which are then ground to cocoa mass, unadulterated chocolate in rough form. Once the cocoa mass is liquefied by heating, it is called chocolate liquor. The liquor may also be cooled and processed into its two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Baking chocolate, also called bitter chocolate, contains cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions, without any added sugar. Powdered baking cocoa, which contains more fiber than cocoa butter, can be processed with alkali to produce dutch cocoa. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, a combination of cocoa solids, cocoa butter or added vegetable oils, and sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk, but no cocoa solids.

Chocolate is one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world, and many foodstuffs involving chocolate exist, particularly desserts, including cakes, pudding, mousse, chocolate brownies, and chocolate chip cookies. Many candies are filled with or coated with sweetened chocolate. Chocolate bars, either made of solid chocolate or other ingredients coated in chocolate, are eaten as snacks. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes (such as eggs, hearts, coins) are traditional on certain Western holidays, including Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, and Hanukkah. Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages, such as chocolate milk and hot chocolate, and in some alcoholic drinks, such as creme de cacao.

Although cocoa originated in the Americas, West African countries, particularly Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, are the leading producers of cocoa in the 21st century, accounting for some 60% of the world cocoa supply.

With some two million children involved in the farming of cocoa in West Africa, child slavery and trafficking were major concerns in 2018, and continue to be. International attempts to improve conditions for children were doomed to failure because of persistent poverty, absence of schools, increasing world cocoa demand, more intensive farming of cocoa, and continued exploitation of child labor.

The special things is that chocolate is symbol of love that many lovers use to win the hearts of others and as gift. Now lets see what are the properties of chocolate.

01. Chocolate contains flavonoids.🍫

 Did you know that chocolate contains a number of flavonoids that have many health benefits?  This ingredient is found naturally in fruits, vegetables, tea and red wine.  This is a powerful antioxidant.  It has the ability to speed up blood flow and control cholesterol

 02. Reduces the risk of heart disease.🍫

 Eating foods containing cocoa greatly improves heart health.  This is because it contains flavonoids.  It is a very good antioxidant.  Chocolate has the ability to prevent blood clots and lower blood pressure.

 03. For atrial function.🍫

 The American Heart Association estimates that more than 2.7 million people are at risk of developing atrial fibrillation.  This chocolate is a good treatment for heart diseases such as atherosclerosis and blood clots.  Research shows that people who eat a lot of chocolate are less likely to get these diseases.

 04. Cools your mind.🍫

 Most of the time we eat chocolate to celebrate a happy contributing moment, right?  Chocolate actually has the ability to change the mood or our mood.  The chemicals in dark chocolate have the potential to stimulate your emotions.

 05. To protect your skin.🍫

 Research shows that the flavonoids in chocolate have the potential to protect your skin from the sun's UV rays.  Darker chocolates are especially suitable for this.  Chocolate also has the ability to increase blood flow to the skin and protect skin moisture.  These chocolates have the ability to protect you from cancer as they protect your skin from the sun's rays and purple rays.

 06. Very suitable for drinking.🍫

 You already know that the cacao contained in chocolate contributes to bleeding.  Did you know that getting chocolate as a liquid is much better for your body than eating it in pieces?  Because white chocolate does not contain cocoa, it is best to drink dark chocolate.

 07. To lose weight.🍫

 Obesity is another problem that many people have. Chocolate is also a good solution to reduce this.  Dark brown chocolate has the ability to lower your body's sugar levels.  So you can eat 3 or 4 small pieces of chocolate a day