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Chocolate
Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree. Native to lowland, tropical South America, cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Central America and Mexico, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican peoples made chocolate beverages, including the Maya and Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water". The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavor. After fermentation, the beans are dried, cleaned, and roasted, and the shell is removed to produce cacao nibs. The nibs are then ground and liquified, resulting in pure chocolate in fluid form: chocolate liquor. The liquor can be further processed into two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter.
Pure, unsweetened chocolate contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, combining chocolate with sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. "White chocolate" contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk but no cocoa solids (and thus does not qualify to be considered true chocolate). Chocolate contains alkaloids such as theobromine and phenethylamine, which have some physiological effects in humans, but the presence of theobromine renders it toxic to some animals, such as dogs and cats. It has been linked to serotonin levels in the brain. Scientists claim that chocolate, eaten in moderation, can lower blood pressure. Dark chocolate has recently been promoted for its health benefits, as it seems to possess substantial amount of antioxidants that reduce the formation of free radicals.
Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavors in the world. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and hearts on Valentine's Day. Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages, to produce chocolate milk and hot chocolate.
Obesity riskThe major concern that nutritionists have is that even though eating dark chocolate may favorably affect certain biomarkers of cardiovascular disease, the amount needed to have this effect would provide a relatively large quantity of calories, which, if unused, would promote weight gain. Obesity is a significant risk factor for many diseases, including cardiovascular disease. As a consequence, consuming large quantities of dark chocolate in an attempt to protect
against cardiovascular disease has been described as 'cutting off one's nose to spite one's face'. There is a popular belief that the consumption of chocolate can cause acne. Various studies seem to show that this is the case for high glycemic index foods in general, though the question is still being studied. Milk is known to cause acne, including any which is mixed with chocolate.
Questions
1. Chocolate is produced from the seed of which tropical tree? _ _ _ _ _
2. Where does it come from originally? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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3. Who are the two Mesoamerican people who made chocolate
beverages? _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _
4. What does the word xocolatl (chocolate) means in Nahuatl?
“_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _”
5. What is the taste of the seeds of the cacao tree? _ _ _ _ _ _
6. Name all the steps that cacao beans have to go through before
becoming chocolate liquor using verbs in the simple past tense.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and the
shell is _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
7. What do we call the product after the nibs are ground and liquefied?
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8. This product is processed into two products?
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9. Chocolate today is consumed in the form of? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
10. It contains chocolate and what? _ _ _ _ _
11. Milk chocolate contains what kind of milk?
_ _ _ _ _ _ or _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
12. What ingredient is NOT in white chocolate?
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13. Chocolate is toxic to animals such as? _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _
14. What do scientists claim that chocolate can do when eaten in
moderation?It can lower _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
15. What does dark chocolate possess in substantial amount?
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16. What are the two beverages produced with chocolate in cold and
hot beverages?
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17. If you eat too much chocolate it promotes? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
18. What is the ingredient in chocolate that causes acne? _ _ _ _
Maze! Factor 3 Find the way the Easter Bunny went through the maze by circling the numbers that are divisible by 3.
Finish
7 53 15 53 63
21 37 42 86 54
Start 3 43 16 18 31
13 27 9 14 72
29 67 35 23 55
Maze! Factor 7 Find the way the Easter Bunny went through the maze by circling the numbers that are divisible by 7.
Start
235 7 235 13 72 287 49 91 22
72 29 63 90 231 36 252 135 64
117 126 314 114 168 12 112 242 77
84 297 99 133 81 153 65 301 36
333 140 175 228 330 43 283 230 238
251 460 21 184 409 343 245 462 286
290 105 82 215 518 29 421 275 84
27 14 17 210 212 336 217 360 69
142 250 41 517 456 88 44 504 55
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