-World Cocoa Foundation, there is between five and six million cocoa farmers worldwide, with between 40 and 50 million people with cocoa for their livelihood.
-70pc of world cocoa comes from West Africa with only production of 40pc of global supply to Côte d'Ivoire. Outside Africa, the main producers of cacao include Indonesia, Malaysia and the Brazil.
-Chocolate is made from the seeds of cocoa tree tropical, officially known as Theobroma Cacao, who, in Greek, literally means "food of the gods".
-A cocoa tree takes five years to produce its first beans.
-The Olmec are the first people known to use cocoa, three to four thousand years, which grew wild in Central America, followed by the Mayas and Aztecs of the 10th century to the 1520s...
-Maya created a ritual drink cocoa mixed with water, black pepper, vanilla and spices, shared marriage ceremonies. This was one of the first links between chocolate and romance.
-Cocoa beans has also used silver in South America of civilization and were consumed only that they wore. A horse, antique show, can be bought for ten beans, with rabbits, costs four beans or 100 for a slave.
-The word "chocolate" was registered in English usage in 1604, but there is no record of drunken chocolate here in 1647.
-January 1, 1900, Queen Victoria has sent a donation of 100,000 boxes of chocolates from troops in the Boer War.
-Chocolate is estimated to contain up to 300 different chemicals. One of them, phenylethylamine (PEA), is a natural substance that in 1982, New York researchers found stimulated by the same reaction in the body like the feeling of falling in love. However, a controlled study in 1995 suggested that the moods of the chocolate addicts have quite improved eating chocolate.
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