10 Facts about Chocolate

Chocolate is one of the most popular and yummiest types of foods that will likely stay at the top of most peoples favorite food lists. Chocolate is something most of us have grown up enjoying, but very few of us have taken the time to learn the many facts that are associated with Chocolate. There are actually hundreds of facts that are associated with Chocolate and I have created a list of the ones that I find most interesting. If you want to know the nutritional values in the different types of chocolate, check out these chocolate nutrition facts. 

1. It is a known fact that chocolate has caffeine in it. But did you know that you would have to eat more then a dozen chocolate bars to get the same amount of caffeine from a cup of coffee? There are about 5 to 10 mg's of caffeine in one ounce of bitter chocolate, 5 mgs in milk chocolate, and 10mgs in a six-ounce cup of cocoa.

2. Chocolate is actually a valuable energy source. A single chocolate chip can provide enough energy for an adult human to walk 150 ft.

3. Chocolate has great health benefits. It helps with depression, high blood pressure, Tumors and Pre-menstrual syndromes.

4. Chocolate does not cause or aggravate acne, this is a myth.

5. One ounce of baking chocolate or cocoa contains 10% of the daily recommended intake of iron.

6. Chocolate can be deadly for dogs. Chocolate contains an ingredient called "Theobromine" which can be toxic to a dogs central nervous system and cardiac muscles.

7. People spend more than $7 billion dollars a year on chocolate.
8. The per capita consumption of chocolate indicates that each person consumes 12 pounds of chocolate each year.

9. Milk Chocolate is the most preferred type of chocolate, however dark chocolate is especially popular among men.

10. In Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho" chocolate syrup was used to indicate blood in the famous shower scene.


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CHOCOLATE MONGGO

A taste of traditionMonggo chocolate is produced in Indonesia and prepared with the utmost respect for the tradition of the great master chocolatiers. The high quality and authentic taste of Monggo chocolate with its premium cocoa and pure cocoa butter makes it the first choice in taste
Monggo chocolate is made from a fine selection of Javanese and Sumatran cocoa beans. All the Monggo products are 100% natural and most of the packagings are made of recycled paper.
All products are made of dark chocolate (100% cocoa butter) with no added preservatives. Each flavour is a creation of our own Belgian chocolatier in our ‘maison de production' in Yogyakarta, Indonesia .
This adventure begins in Yogya in 2001 when a Belgian man, 35 years of age, arrives in Indonesia without a plan in mind. Disappointed by the lack of quality chocolate in the shops of the world's 3rd largest producer of cocoa, the Belgian decides to take matters into his own hands and endeavors to make some specialties of his low-land country using limited resources.
The first chocolate truffles to be given to his Indonesian friends caused their eyes to light up with pleasure. You have to make more they said! So off he went on his old pink vespa which he had transformed into a vending stall. Every Sunday morning he sold them at the Gajah Mada University market and outside the Kota Baru church. More for pleasure and for discovering the reactions of people rather than for making money, these interesting moments shaped the man's career and made him the first chocolatier of Yogyakarta.

To turn the dream into reality, he still needed to combine his good energy with adequate capital. The first initiative to create a store was not a great success and the project was soon abandoned. But it was a step towards the creation of the company Anugerah Mulia in 2005. This small, dynamic team of chocolate lovers created their first products under the name of Cacaomania; boxes of pralines targeted at young adults. The name was finally abandoned because it was too general - we needed a product that would fill a niche in the market before tackling a larger project.

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