On this chocolate day we are here with some of lesser known facts about chocolate.

All of us has been familiar with chocolate and tasted it delightfully but lesser people among are familiar with rarely known facts about chocolate.

We here are sharing few of them.

1. Smell of chocolate relaxes our brain.

2. Chocolate has anti-bacterial effect and prevents tooth decay.

3. White chocolate is technically not chocolate as it has no cocoa in it.

4. It takes approximately 550 cocoa beans to make 500 grams of chocolate.

5. West Africa is the biggest suppliers of cocoa in the world.

6. The U.S. is one of the top producers of high-quality chocolates, with U.S. chocolate manufacturers bringing in over $20 billion annually in retail sales.

7. The inventor of chocolate cookie sell his idea to nestle in a return of life time supply of chocolate.

8. Americans are the biggest consumer of chocolate as every second they consumes 100 pounds of chocolate.

9. HERSHEY’S Milk chocolate bar is the largest chocolate bar weighing 5,800 KG.

10. Eating dark chocolate daily reduces the risk of heart disease by one-third.