Top 10 facts about chocolate. Can you think of some more?? ;)

1. Chocolate is made from cocoa beans. About 40 cocoa beans are contained in each cocoa pod.

2. One cocoa tree produces about 50 pods twice a year. Each pod has enough cocoa for about eight bars of milk chocolate or four bars of dark. So each tree gives 400-800 bars of chocolate a year.

3. The Ivory Coast produces more cocoa than any other country (37 per cent of the world’s total).

4. Ghana (just under 21 per cent) and Indonesia (almost 14 per cent) come next.

5. Research published last year showed a high correlation between a nation’s chocolate intake and the number of Nobel Prizes it wins.

6. Among the Mayans and Aztecs, chocolate was originally a cold drink made from crushed beans.

7. The word chocolate was first recorded in English in 1604, though England’s first cup of chocolate was not brewed until 1647.

8. Exactly 200 years later, in 1847, J.S. Fry’s of Bristol invented the chocolate bar.

9. The British spend an average of just over a pound a week on chocolate.

10. The word chocolatiers (makers of sellers of chocolate) is an anagram of Hitler’s cocoa.