Do you like chocolate?  Are you a chocoholic?  Or can you take it or leave it?  No matter how you feel about this sweet treat, you’re sure to learn something from Aine’s article.

Chocolate

 

                                                                          

Everybody knows chocolate and most people like chocolate.

Chocolate is made from cocoa,  non-fat dry milk powder, sugar, lecithin and vanilla pods (split and soaked in the cocoa butter 1 hour; this is optional flavouring).

Chocolate has four different kinds of flavor, dark, milk, and white, with cocoa solids contributing to the brown coloration.

Chocolate was discovered by man named Columbus in 1550s.  He was from Europe. Then many people started to make Chocolate but it isn't easy to make it. It takes more than 2 days to make it.

 

          These days, chocolate can be art.  Look at those pictures!!!!

 

         Those objects are all made of chocolate. those are really amazing.

 

The most expensive chocolate comes from France. It costs 2,600 dollars per pound! It's too expensive. This chocolate is called…

CHOCOPOLOGIE

        

 

         When we think about health, we're not sure that chocolate is a good for health.

         If we eat too much chocolate, it affect our brain and it cause headache. Raw chocolate is high in cocoa butter, a fat so it increase the risk of obesity. But actually chocolate isn't really bad for health. For example, cocoa increase brain activity. Chocolate decrease risk of infarction. As you can see at this picture, chocolate helps many things in the body.

 

 

      Chocolate is the one of the most popular treat given on holidays. On Valentine's day, a box of chocolate is given. It's given on another holidays, including Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Birthday.

     Many people eat chocolate these days :). Many people love chocolate very much.

                                       

                                                                

         By Aine