Top Trends That Influences The Consumption of Chocolate Worldwide
Chocolate is one of the most popular sweet treats in the world. Citizens around the world (but mainly in Europe and the United States) eat more than 3 million tons of cocoa beans each year, as per the World Cocoa Foundation. Chocolate is produced from the fruit of Theobroma coffee, a tropical tree whose name means "food of the gods" in Greek. Fine chocolate is classified into three categories: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. All that you need to know about chocolate: Where does the origin of chocolate come from? Theobroma cacao trees belong to the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in South America. The trees are broadly distributed from southeastern Mexico to the Amazon River. They thrive in hot, humid areas about 20 degrees below the equator. As the popularity of chocolate increases, growers have developed plantations in other areas, such as West Africa and South and Southeast Asia. Today, Ghana, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Brazil account for 79...