Chocolate Fun Facts

• Half of Americans choose what chocolate they eat by the shape of the piece.
• The average American eats about 10 pounds of chocolate a year.
• The Swiss average 20 pounds a year.
• It takes 400 cacao beans to make one pound of chocolate.
• Chocolate was once considered a temptation of the devil.
• Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate.
• On his fourth voyage to the New World, in 1502, Christopher Columbus was the first European to taste chocolate.

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