There are so many ways in which we can describe it: a sumptuous treat or a feast for your eyes or ... It's your turn to describe this everyday delight that tickles your taste-buds :))
2006-10-12 07:41:52 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Chocolate makes me feel so relaxed and loved..such a super comfort food..
2006-10-12 07:51:34 · answer #1 · answered by Lily 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chocolate is.......
• Chocolate is America's favorite flavor. A recent survey revealed that 52 percent of U.S. adults said they like chocolate best. The second favorite flavor was a tie (at 12 percent each) between berry flavors and vanilla.
• U.S. chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the almonds produced in the United States and 25 percent of domestic peanuts.
• U.S. chocolate manufacturers use about 3.5 million pounds of whole milk every day to make chocolate.
• Sixty-five percent of American chocolate eaters prefer milk chocolate.
• The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature -- which is why it literally melts in your mouth.
• Approximately 60% of Americans said they gave boxed chocolates as a winter holiday gift.
• Most Americans (63%) can't resist buying a chocolate treat for themselves when buying chocolates for someone else.
• Half of Americans (51%) choose what chocolate they eat by the shape of the piece.
Types of Chocolate
• Unsweetened or Baking Chocolate: Chocolate Liquor that has been cooled and hardened. (Chocolate liquor is not alcoholic, but is only the liquid that is pressed from the cocoa bean. It is chocolate in its most basic form).
• Dark or Bittersweet Chocolate: Bittersweet chocolate must contain a minimum of 34 percent cacao solids, (the higher the percentage the better tasting)
• Semi-sweet Chocolate: Chocolate with extra cocoa butter and sugar added.
• German Chocolate: German Sweet Chocolate was formulated in the mid 1800's by S. German. This form of chocolate is sweeter and richer than semi-sweet chocolate, and is a special blend of chocolate, sugar and cocoa butter.
• Milk Chocolate: A creamy sweet chocolate that has extra cocoa butter, sugar, milk, and vanilla.
• Cocoa: Chocolate liquor with the cocoa butter having been removed, creating a fine bitter tasting powder. (Technically, "chocolate" must contain both the chocolate liquor and the cocoa butter. If the cocoa butter has been removed and replaced with vegetable oil the result is, by definition, not chocolate. The higher the cocoa butter content in chocolate the better it is considered to be.)
• Dutch Process Cocoa: A special process used to neutralize the natural acids in cocoa powder. It has a much different taste then regular cocoa powder.
• White Chocolate: Chocolate is technically made up of cocoa and cocoa butter. However, white chocolate consists of the cocoa butter without the cocoa and is therefore not considered chocolate. It also usually contains sugar, milk, and other flavorings. Cheap imitations that substitute vegetable oil for cocoa butter are often referred to as Vanilla chips.
• Decorator's or Confectioner's Chocolate: Is not really chocolate but is instead chocolate flavored candy. Used as a substitute to dip fruit with.
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It is delicious hard/creamy soft and comes in loads of flavors!!
yummm!!
2006-10-12 14:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A necessary part of your recommended daily allowance of happiness. Chocolate is known to stimulate endorphins in the brain. Besides, every Dove comes with a little happy thought inside!!
2006-10-12 14:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by Cinderella 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Delicious
2006-10-12 14:49:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate!
-Elaine Sherman, Book of Divine Indulgences
2006-10-12 14:46:33 · answer #5 · answered by spicychica_shel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chocolate is one of the major food groups. A staple in one's diet. It is as
necessary as water in order to function, can't live without it for more than a
few days.
2006-10-12 15:07:04 · answer #6 · answered by Ammy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Required.
2006-10-12 15:40:46 · answer #7 · answered by alison k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mmm. Rich aroma, wonderful "mouth feel" as it melts on your tongue--sweet, fat, and just a little bitter. Perfect balance. The food of the gods.
2006-10-12 14:48:11 · answer #8 · answered by Cluny Brown 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's one of the best things that man has discovered as food.
Although it's so good when you eat chocolate with sugar added, pure chocolate is pretty nasty. anyway chocolate is super good.
2006-10-12 15:03:35 · answer #9 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chocolate is the only real anti-depressant, taken orally, goes directly to the heart, mind and body causing an immediate sensation, some describe as sexual but always uplifting.......
CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
2006-10-12 14:58:47 · answer #10 · answered by gamerunner2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋