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Chocolate or cocoa beans to be exact was used by the Aztecs as early as 400, but it was Columbus who first introduced the new world when he led back to Spain. As a chocolate drink was very popular in Europe in the mid 1600's, the chocolate, but as a solid was introduced in 1847. Thirty years later, the milk is added to create milk chocolate and chocolate bars have been enjoyed worldwide since!
Manufacturing chocolate
It's actually quite simple to make chocolate, but each manufacturer has their own secret recipes. First, the cocoa beans are roasted and bottom up. Then add the sugar and other ingredients (milk, if you are making milk chocolate). Each manufacturer will have a list of different ingredients. The ingredients are mixed through a method called conching using a special machine. Finally, tempered chocolate is heated and cooled again for the final result.
Chocolate cancer and heart disease. These benefits are mainly in black and chocolate chocolates only high quality using 60% or more cocoa solids. Cheap chocolate is mainly fat and sugar and has little nutritional value.
Storing Chocolate
You should store chocolate in a cool, dry place. That does not absorb flavors so be sure to wrap tightly. You can freeze for up to 6 months. Chocolate good for stays up to one year.
Health Benefits of Chocolate
Good quality chocolates contain vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that can help your health. Not now IÂ'm talking about the bar of a cheap material, but sweet high-quality gourmet chocolate with 60% or more cocoa solids. This chocolate contains contains calcium, iron, potassium and vitamins A, B1, C, D and E.
Along with vitamins, high-quality chocolate contains the highest amounts of magnesium among natural foods. Magnesium deficiency has been linked to diabetes, joint problems, hypertension and premenstrual syndrome.
One of the additional health benefits of is that chocolate contains catechins found - some of the same antioxidants found in green tea. The catechins attack free radicals that damage cells and is believed to cause cancer and heart disease. So eating chocolate can help prevent heart disease and cancer!
Chocolate Trivia
- Chocolate is made from seeds, the tip is the heart of the seed or what remains after they roasted and shelled. Points of land is called liquor are sugar and liquid when heated, but solid when cooled. The blight is the cocoa butter and when pressed out, the powder material on the left is cocoa powder.
- That white is sometimes in milk chocolate is called fat bloom, does not affect the taste and you can still eat chocolate that is!
- Chocolate was considered an aphrodisiac by the Aztecs
- White chocolate is not really chocolate at all because it contains no chocolate liquor! Still tastes pretty good, though is not it?
Lee Dobbins is a writer for Online Gourmet Foods where you can find out more about gourmet foods and chocolate.
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