The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving and cocoa fun facts. As we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that we just did not know. We have decided when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with our readers in our section titled “Did You Know?”
1)It takes 5 years for a cocoa tree to produce its first seed pods.
2)It takes about 400 beans to make a pound of chocolate.
3)December 13th is National Cocoa Day.
4)Chocolate has properties that combat Heart disease; thanks to flavanoids from the cocoa plant.
5)The ancient tribes, of the Maya Indians, were the first to discover the wonderful enchanting properties of the cocoa bean around the year 600 AD.
6)Christopher Columbus, in 1502, was thought to have brought cocoa beans to King Ferdinand, during his fourth trip from the New World.