Ten Fun Facts About Cocoa!
Lets take a look at some great facts about cocoa!
- It takes 400 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate.
- It takes two to four days to make a single-serving chocolate bar.
- “Cacao” is how you say “cocoa” in Spanish.
- Most cocoa–70 percent–hails from West Africa.
- Cote d’Ivoire is the single largest producer of cocoa, providing roughly 40 percent of the world’s supply./li>
- Chocolate comes from a fruit tree; it’s made from a seed.
- Because cacao trees are so delicate, farmers lose, on average, 30 percent of their crop each year.
- The average size of a cocoa farm in West Africa is 7 to 10 acres.
- The average serving of milk chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of decaf coffee.
- Cacao leaves can move 90 degrees, from horizontal to vertical, to get sun and to protect younger leaves.
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