Quiz: Are You a True Chocoholic?
Put your sweet knowledge to the test and find out.
from The Amazing Quiz Challenge (Reader's Digest Association)
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True or False?
It takes about 75 Hershey’s Kisses to equal a pound of chocolate.
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False!
It takes about 95 kisses to equal a pound.
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True or False?
Americans annually eat far more chocolate per capita than Europeans.
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False!
False. Americans average about 12 pounds per person per year, while the Swiss, Europe’s top chocolate consumers, eat nearly double that amount.
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True or False?
Chocolate is made from roasted and fermented beans of the cacao plant, plus some form of fat (such as cocoa butter or oil), and often sugar and vanilla.
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True!
The sweet treat always contains fat and sugar.
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True or False?
Hershey’s is the largest producer of chocolate in the entire world.
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True!
With a wide range of chocolate products on the market, Hershey's certainly takes the cake.
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True or False?
White chocolate contains no cocoa butter.
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False!
White chocolate contains no cocoa solids, but good version do have cocoa butter.
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True or False?
The typical 1.55-ounce milk chocolate Hershey’s Kiss bar is Hershey’s most famous (and best-selling) product.
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False!
Kisses are Hershey's top seller.
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True or False?
The chocolate that fine chocolate candy makers use as the base for all their exquisite fillings is called couverture.
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False!
Couverture is usually used for the exterior coating.
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True or False?
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock used chocolate syrup to simulate blood while filming the shower scene in Psycho.
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True!
Yes, chocolate was actually used as fake blood for that famous scene.
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True or False?
In 1942, production of Hershey’s Kisses was halted to save foil for the war effort.
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True!
The war effort meant everyone had to pitch in.
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True or False?
Eating chocolate stimulates the body to release endorphins, the pleasure hormone.
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True!
That's why we love it so much!
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