All about Chocolate

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You

never know what you’re going to get.” (Forrest
Gump)
 Overview

(1) Facts
(2) History of Chocolate
(3) Production of Chocolate
(4) Prejudices and Truth
(5) Chocolate in everyday life
(6) Bibliography
 Facts
(1) Facts of Consumption
(2) Nutritional Information
(3) Difference between white chocolate and milk
chocolate
 Facts of Consumption
Chocolate consumption in kilograms per person and country
Facts of Consumption
 Facts
(1) Facts of Consumption
(2) Nutritional Information
(3) Difference between white chocolate and milk
chocolate
 Nutritional Information
Pure Milk White
Per 100 grams
chocolate chocolate chocolate

Protein (g) 4,7 8,4 8

Fat (g) 29,2 30,3 30,9

Calories (kcal) 525 529 529

Calcium (mg) 38 220 270

Magnesium
(mg) 100 55 26
 Facts
(1) Facts of Consumption
(2) Nutritional Information
(3) Difference between white
chocolate and milk chocolate
 Difference between
white and milk chocolate
White chocolate Milk chocolate
• Two kinds of white • by definition: less than
chocolate 30% chocolate
 not chocolate. • Milk-chocolate-candy:
• "Real" white chocolate = primarily sugar + spices
candy bark with almost no chocolate
• Allergic to cocoa  contains • Milk chocolate
no cocoa. 12 cocoa beans
• Ingrediens (primarily): cocoa • “Real” chocolate
butter, sugar, milk and 99 cocoa beans
vanilla, without any cocoa
flavoring
Strictly speaking:
chocolate is any product based 99% on cocoa solid and/or cacao fat
 Overview

(1) Facts
(2) History of Chocolate
(3) Production of Chocolate
(4) Prejudices and Truth
(5) Chocolate in everyday life
(6) Bibliography
 History of Chocolate
(1) Where does Cocoa come from?
(2) Chocolate in Europe – Some Dates
 Where does Cocoa come from?
• First people who made chocolate were the Mayas and
the Aztecs
• They drank chocolate as a bitter and spicy beverage
called “xocoatl” (“bitter water”)
• Chocolate played an important role in their social and
religious life
• It symbolized life and fertility and was also used as
medicine
• It was a drink for wealthy and
important people
(royalty, priests, etc.)
• Cocoa beans were also used
as money
 History of Chocolate
(1) Where does Cocoa come from?
(2) Chocolate in Europe – Some Dates
Chocolate in Europe - Some Dates
1528: Hernán Cortéz returned to Spain with
cocoa beans and the formula for the
chocolate drink
1615: The Spanish princess Anne of Austria
married Luis XIII of France, so chocolate
came to France
1657: A Frenchman opened the first
“Chocolate House” in London
 became as popular as Coffee Houses
Chocolate in Europe - Some Dates
1674: The first solid chocolate in a stick form had
been sold
End of 17th century: chocolate came to Germany
 first pralines were made by a German cook
 a tax was imposed by Frederick I of Prussia
1792: A chocolate factory was opened in Berlin
1875: The first milk chocolate was put on the
market
 Overview

(1) Facts
(2) History of Chocolate
(3) Production of Chocolate
(4) Prejudices and Truth
(5) Chocolate in everyday life
(6) Bibliography
Cocoa growing countries
Cocoa Beans - The Raw Material
 Flow Diagram of
Chocolate Production

Step 1: cocoa beans

Cocoa Beans - Roasting
 Flow Diagram of
Chocolate Production

Step 1: cocoa beans

Step 2: shell and nibs

Nibs, Shell and Liquor
 Flow Diagram of
Chocolate Production

Step 1: cocoa beans

Step 2: shell and nibs

Step 3: cocoa powder

Cocoa Powder
 Flow Diagram of
Chocolate Production

Step 1: cocoa beans

Step 2: shell and nibs

Step 3: cocoa powder

Step 4: plain chocolate

 Chocolate

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 Overview

(1) Facts
(2) History of Chocolate
(3) Production of Chocolate
(4) Prejudices and Truth
(5) Chocolate in everyday life
(6) Bibliography
 Prejudices and Truth

(1)Table of Prejudices and Truth

(2) Advantages of plain, dark chocolate
 Table of Prejudices and Truth

*cheap mass- # plain, dark

produced chocolate chocolate
 Table of Prejudices and Truth
Prejudice Reason Truth
migraine large doses of tyramine only small quantity
 Table of Prejudices and Truth
Prejudice Reason Truth
migraine large doses of tyramine only small quantity
obesity sugar * a lot of sugar
# less sugar  no
correlation

*cheap, mass-produced chocolate # dark chocolate (> 70%)

 Table of Prejudices and Truth
Prejudice Reason Truth
migraine large doses of tyramine only small quantity
obesity sugar * a lot of sugar
# less sugar  no
correlation
acne no correlation between acne and chocolate proved

*cheap, mass-produced chocolate # dark chocolate (> 70%)

 Table of Prejudices and Truth
Prejudice Reason Truth
migraine large doses of tyramine only small quantity
obesity sugar * a lot of sugar
# less sugar  no
correlation
acne no correlation between acne and chocolate proved
tooth decay Tannin counteracts *lot of tannins
enzyme  caries # calcium and fluoride 
fortification

*cheap, mass-produced chocolate # dark chocolate (> 70%)

 Table of Prejudices and Truth
Prejudice Reason Truth
migraine large doses of tyramine only small quantity
obesity sugar * a lot of sugar
# less sugar  no
correlation
acne no correlation between acne and chocolate proved
tooth decay Tannin counteracts *lot of tannins
enzyme  caries # calcium and fluoride 
fortification
allergy allergy is rare (exception: traces of nuts)

*cheap, mass-produced chocolate # dark chocolate (> 70%)

 Table of Prejudices and Truth
Prejudice Reason Truth
migraine large doses of tyramine only small quantity
obesity sugar * a lot of sugar
# less sugar  no
correlation
acne no correlation between acne and chocolate proved
tooth decay Tannin counteracts *lot of tannins
enzyme  caries # calcium and fluoride 
fortification
allergy allergy is rare (exception: traces of nuts)
addiction no evidence proved (only delight and desire)

*cheap, mass-produced chocolate # dark chocolate (> 70%)

 Prejudices and Truth
(1) Table of Prejudices and Truth
(2) Advantages of plain, dark
chocolate
 Advantages of plain, dark chocolate
Supports antioxidant effects Prevention of clogged
arteries and heart attacks
Mood enhancer Raises serotonin and
(aphrodisiac) releases endorphins

Rich of magnesium Prevent women of violent

mood, heart disease and
hypertension

Cholesterol free Cholesterol furs up arteries

 Overview

(1) Facts
(2) History of Chocolate
(3) Production of Chocolate
(4) Prejudices and Truth
(5) Chocolate in everyday life
(6) Bibliography
 Chocolate in everyday life
(1) Chocolate in media
1.1 advertising
1.2 films
(2) Quotation about Chocolate
Advertising
 Advertising

For adults filled with For children filled with

alcohol milk cream
 Advertising
For adults and kids
 “play, fun, tension and chocolate”
German English
Films
Films
 Chocolate in everyday life
(1) Chocolate in media
1.1 advertising
1.2 films
(2) Quotations about Chocolate
 Quotations about Chocolate
• There is nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with
chocolate. (Linda Grayson, “The Pickwick Papers”)
• It is not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for
chocolate. Chocolate is, let’s face it, far more reliable than a man.
(Miranda Ingram)
• Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can. (unknown)
• This guy found a bottle on the ocean, and he opened it and out popped a
genie, and he gave him three wishes. The guy wished a million dollars
and poof! there was a million dollars. Then he wished for a convertible,
and poof! there was a convertible. And then, he wished he could be
irresistible to all women … poof! He turned into a box of chocolates.
(unknown)
 Quotations about Chocolate
• Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world’s perfect
food. (Michael Levine, nutrition researcher)

• I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging

process.
It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? (unknown)

• I never met a chocolate I didn’t like. (Deanna Troi in “Star

Trek”)

• Simply put … everybody has a price, mine is chocolate!

(unknown)
 Overview

(1) Facts
(2) History of Chocolate
(3) Production of Chocolate
(4) Prejudices and Truth
(5) Chocolate in everyday life
(6) Bibliography
 Bibliography
http://www.cinetropic.com/chocolat/history.html (14.01.06)
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/chocolate/history.html (13.12.05)
http://www.chocolatemonthclub.com/chocolatehistory.htm
(14.1.06)
http://www.library.thinkquest.org/J0110012/history/history-of-
chocolate1.htm (13.12.05)
http://www.library.thinkquest.org/J0110012/made/made.htm
(13.12.05)
http://www.xocoatl.org/science.htm (18.12.05)
http://www.hawaiianchocolate.com/growing_chocolate_manufac
turing.html (16.1.06)
http://www.chokladkultur.se/english.htm (5.01.06)
http://www.cocoatree.org (14.1.06)
http://www.virtualchocolate.com/quotes.cfm (18.12.05)
http://www.infozentrum-schoko.de/fs06_a.html (12.01.06)