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10th January - What’s the day today?
Bittersweet Chocolate Day
Let's
celebrate the love of chocolate! January 10th is National Bittersweet Chocolate
Day, a day to savor your taste buds with a munching piece of chocolate.
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A chocolate feast is celebrated each January 10th as the Bittersweet Chocolate Day.
Where it is celebrated?
10th
January is the National Bittersweet Chocolate Day celebrated in United States of
America. It is a fun day to celebrate the time when cocoa beans were first cultivated
and Europeans discovered its use in the deserts. Thus now we have our All-time
favorite treat "Chocolate" derived from cocoa beans as cultivated by
the Europeans.
History of Origin
The
Chocolate we now know is milk chocolate with loads of unhealthy carbohydrates
and sugars to sweeten the flavor of chocolate and milk to develop the taste.
But centuries ago, when cocoa beans (the main ingredient of a chocolate base)
was discovered, it was bitter in taste with the many health benefits.
Originally,
chocolate was made from the seeds of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao
was first cultivated in Mexico, Central America, and northern South America at
least three millennia ago. The earliest documented use of cacao seeds dates
back to approximately 1100 BC. Early ancestors of cacao cultivation were the
Olmec Indians who grew cocoa beans for domestic consumption. Columbus brought
cacao seeds back to Spain from Central America on his voyage. US-based Bristol
Company Fry & Son produced chocolate bars for the first time in 1847.
Cadbury, the chocolate brand we know today, was founded in 1849 by John Cadbury
when he introduced his own brand of chocolate bar.
How it is made?
Cacao
tree seeds have a strong bitter taste and need fermentation to become
palatable. The seeds are fermented and then dried, cleaned, and roasted after
they have been cleaned. The chocolate nibs are then removed from the shell
after roasting. A cocoa mass is then ground from the nibs, yielding pure
chocolate in its raw form. In most cases, the cocoa mass is liquefied and then
molded either with or without other ingredients. We call this chocolate liquor.
The chocolate liquor is then separated into two components: cocoa solids and
cocoa butter.
Health Benefits of Bittersweet Chocolate
It's
good for your health to consume bittersweet chocolate occasionally. It is known
that the antioxidants present in bittersweet chocolate increase blood flow,
lowering blood pressure as HDL cholesterol is raised and LDL is protected from
oxidation. As a result, Bittersweet chocolate can boost your
cardiovascular system.
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