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# 10 Things You Don't Know about Chocolate ...

Yes those candy bars sure taste good, but there’s a lot you probably didn’t know about **chocolate**! Do you want to find out? Well, here goes!

**1.** We’ve heard of rice and pasta, but chocolate as a staple? Yes, ask the South Mexico Olmec tribe back **in 1000 B.C. **They ate chocolate all the time! Strange, but true!

**2. **Talk about sweet ceremonies! **The Maya** drank liquid chocolate during weddings, engagements, baptisms and even funerals! Whoever thought there was something ceremonial about [chocolate](https://allwomenstalk.com/top-chocolate-bars/)!

**3.** Some chocolates may cost you but did you know that Cacao or chocolates beans were used as **currency** by Aztec and Maya tribes? If we had that today we would be eating out of our wallets!

**4.** So who thought of **solidifying chocolate**? Thank Mexican nuns from the 1700’s as they created and exported the first chocolate product as a fund raiser for their convent.

**5.** Here’s [another fact](https://allwomenstalk.com/7-awesome-facts/). Not just 10 or 50 but chocolate remarkably has over **500 flavors** in it! No wonder it tastes so good. Vanilla and strawberry don’t even come close to this figure.

**6.** Heard of Mexican Emperor Montezuma? He drank liquid chocolate before getting busy in his harem. Since chocolate make you feel good, it is considered an **aphrodisiac**.

**7.** Those gory scenes in **Alfred Hitchcock's ‘Psycho’**, was all chocolate syrup! Although the scene finishes in about 45 seconds, it took 7 days to get that shot done perfectly! Now that’s a sticky plot!

**8.** Chocolate was re-born in 1879 when Daniel Peter and Henre Nestle introduced **milk chocolate** to the world. In the same year Rudolphe Lindt introduced the conching process which makes chocolate smooth and soft.

**9.** **Napoleon** was great in many ways. Did you know he took chocolate along with him during his military campaigns. Now that was a clever move as chocolate gives you added energy and restores carbohydrates.

**10.** For all those of you out there dreaming about those chocolate bars, dream away! You can’t blame chocolate for raising your blood cholesterol. Now that’s a fact so eat!

**Chocolate** has changed the way we eat, romance and live. But don’t go overboard as too much of a good thing can be bad!

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