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Chocolate is perceived to be different things at different times, including a sweet treat, a luxury product, a consumer good and a mood enhancer. [166] Its reputation as a mood enhancer is driven in part by marketing. [167] Chocolate is a popular metaphor for the black racial category, [168] and has connotations of sexuality. [169]
Dogs and other animals that metabolize theobromine (found in chocolate) more slowly [35] can succumb to theobromine poisoning from as little as 50 g (1.8 oz) of milk chocolate for a smaller dog and 400 g (14 oz), or around nine 44-gram (1.55 oz) small milk chocolate bars, for an average-sized dog. The concentration of theobromine in dark ...
Another UK variant of the term is vermicelli, especially when said of chocolate sprinkles. [1] [2] This name can be seen borrowed into spoken Egyptian Arabic as faːrmasil. [3] Jimmies is the most popular term for chocolate sprinkles in the Boston, Philadelphia, and New England regions. [4]
Chocolate is a type of: Food – substance to provide nutritional support for the body, ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, and/or stimulate growth.
An assortment of desserts. A chocolate-strawberry crumble ball. Indian confectionery desserts (known as mithai, or sweets in some parts of India).Sugar and desserts have a long history in India: by about 500 BC, people in India had developed the technology to produce sugar crystals.
Chocolate gained popularity in elevated social circles around the 1650s and 1660s. [4] During the 18th century, the French emphasized cacao quality in making chocolate. Chocolate recipes commonly included vanilla, which was twice as common in French recipes for chocolate at this time than British recipes. [5]
Chocolate-covered coffee bean – confections made by coating roasted coffee beans in some kind of chocolate: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or white chocolate. They are usually only slightly sweet, especially the dark chocolate kind, and the intense, bitter flavor of the coffee beans can be overwhelming for non-coffee-drinkers.
Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604, [1] and in Spanish in 1579. [2] However, the word's origins beyond this are contentious. [3] Despite a popular belief that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl, early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning "cacao water".