Here’s What You Don’t Know about Chocolate

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First published: 12 October 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Europeans were not fond of chocolate.

When the European explorers returned from the Americas and brought the chocolate drink back home, it didn’t receive a warm welcome. In fact, the drink was often treated with disdain. Europeans were more familiar and preferred tea and coffee more than chocolate.

Funny note, hundreds of years later, 80 percent of the 20 countries with the highest chocolate consumption are Northern European countries.

Chocolate is best stored in wine cellars.

Chocolate is sensitive to temperature and humidity, and will deteriorate faster if stored in normal storage conditions. You should store your chocolate in a cool, dry place. If you store your chocolate in a cool place (at around 40 degrees Fahrenheit), it will last longer.

It’s best to store it in an airtight container. If you store your chocolate in a wine cellar, it will be even better! Wine cellars are cooler than regular houses, and they’re also naturally humid and dark places where the chocolate won’t degrade as fast.

There are 4 types of chocolate, not three.

Most people know the three types of chocolate; dark, milk, and white. But do you know that there’s actually another type of chocolate? It’s blond!

Blond chocolate is often known as caramelized white chocolate, because it has the colour of caramel. It is said that blond chocolate was made by an accident by Frédéric Bau who accidentally left some white chocolate to caramelize for several hours.

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