Chocolate and Candy Trivia
Sweet Fun For Everyone!
Welcome to our trivia page! Learn some fun and fascinating facts about everyone's favorite sweets!
Did You Know? The first packaged box of Whitman's chocolate was introduced in 1854.
- Hershey's milk chocolate bar was introduced in 1900.
- Candy is make simply by dissolving sugar in water. The different heating levels determine the types of candy. Hot temperatures make hard candy. medium heat will make soft candy and cool temperatures make chewy candy.
- About 65 percent of American candy brands have been around for more than 50 years.
Chocolate Rule #1- If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.
Did You Know? The first packaged box of Whitman's chocolate was introduced in 1854.
- Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient.
- Dentyne gum was invented in 1899 by a druggist from New York named Franklin V. Canning.
- Each Jelly Belly jelly bean has 4 calories.
- Hershey has the capacity to wrap up to 1,300 Hershey Kisses every minute.
- Every year, more than one million miles of Twizzler's licorice is made.
- In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a year.
- The first chocolate bar was made in 1847 by Fry's chocolate factory located in Bristol, England. They were the ones to mold the first chocolate bar that was suitable to be distributed to the public.
- Annual per capita consumption of chocolate is approximately 12 pounds per person.
Chocolate Can Be Lethal To Dogs
Theobromine, an ingredient that stimulates the cardiac muscle and the central nervous system,causes chocolate toxicity. About two ounces of milk chocolate can be poisonous for a 10lb. puppy.- In a pack of Skittles candy, there is an equal 20% distribution of each flavor.
- In one day, the Tootsie Roll industry makes over 16 million lollipops.
- American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk.
- The melting point of cocoa butter is just below the human body temperature- which is why it literally melts in your mouth.
Chocolate Rule #2- Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
True or False: One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana? TRUE.
Q: When was chocolate first introduced to the United States? A: In 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Chocolate goes to space! M&M's chocolates were chosen to be part of the astronauts food supply in 1982.
True or False: One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana? TRUE.
Q: When was chocolate first introduced to the United States? A: In 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.
- In Europe during the Middle Ages, the high cost of sugar made sugar candy a delicacy available only to the wealthy.
- The biggest candy eaters are the Dutch, who average 65 pounds of candy per person in a year.
- Seventy-one percent of American chocolate eaters prefer milk chocolate.
- A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet.
- The candy bar "Baby Ruth" was named after U.S. President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth who was born while he was serving in the White House.
- The first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896.
- The idea of a sweet treat was first invented by cavemen who ate honey from bee hives.
Chocolate goes to space! M&M's chocolates were chosen to be part of the astronauts food supply in 1982.
Yum-yum...TWIX Caramel Cookie Bars where first introduced in 1979.
Did You Know? The most popular Twizzler candy flavor is strawberry.
- Chocolate manufactures currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
- Seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy is manufactured each year in the United States.
- Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache. (Eat too much and it will surely cause one...lol)
- In the early 1900's, a Russian immigrant by the name of Samuel Born invented a lollipop making machine that automatically inserted the sticks into the candy.
- The Kit Kat bar was introduced to the market in 1935.
Believe It or Not! It takes seven to ten days to make a Jelly Belly jelly bean.
Chocolate Rule #3- The problem: How to get two pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
Did You Know? The most popular Twizzler candy flavor is strawberry.
- The first commercial chewing gum was sold in 1848 by John B. Curtis, who also made the gum. He called it "State of Main Pure Spruce Gum."
- M & M's were invented in 1940.
- Americans over 18 years of age consume 65 percent of the candy that's produced each year.
- By the mid-1800's, over 380 American factories were producing candy- primarily "penny candy" which was sold loose from glass cases in general stores.
