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| Answers to True & False Quiz |
| 1. FALSE - Cocoa has 20% protein in it. 2. TRUE - African countries produce nearly double the tonnage of South American countries. 3. TRUE - The Swiss eat more chocolate (per capita) than the USA. But the United States has more people so there is more chocolate sold here. 4. TRUE - The Mayans and Aztecs did use cocao beans as money and when they had too many beans, they would make a chocolate drink with them. 5. FALSE - The word xocolatl means "Bitter Water." The Greek word, Theobroma means "Food of the gods". 6. FALSE - Americans only eat 10 lbs of chocolate per person per year. 7. FALSE - The Hershey Company wasn't the first to manufacture chocolate in the USA, the John Harmon Company did, in 1765. 8. TRUE - Cocoa Butter, the fat from the cocoa bean is used to make white chocolate. 9. TRUE - The Chuao Valley in Venezuela still cultivates cocoa beans the same way the Aztecs did. 10. FALSE - Casanova loved chocolate and believed it was an aphrodesiac. 11. TRUE - Chocolate syrup was used as blood in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho. 12. FALSE - The Chinese associate blue with death, so they wouldn't put chocolate in blue wrappers. 13. TRUE - 71% of Americans prefer milk chocolate to dark. 14. TRUE - Chocolate has magnesium in it. 15. TRUE - Chocolate was very expensive to make therefore only the wealthy could afford it. |
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