DID YOU KNOW?
-It takes 5 years for a cocoa tree to produce its first seed pods.
-It takes about 400 beans to make a pound of chocolate.
-Chocolate has properties that combat Heart disease; thanks to flavanoids from the cocoa plant.
-The ancient tribes, of the Maya Indians, were the first to discover the wonderful enchanting properties of the cocoa bean around the year 600 AD.
-Christopher Columbus, in 1502, was thought to have brought cocoa beans to King Ferdinand,1 during his fourth trip from the New World.
-Cocoa was exported to Europe in 1585 but the first chocolate bar was not made until 1848.
-The first chocolate house for the United States was established in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
-Throughout the world the annual cocoa production is 3 million tons.
-Length of time required for a cocoa tree to produce its first beans (pods): five years.

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