Pros And Cons Of Chocolate

While Europe and the United States account for most chocolate consumption, the confection is growing in popularity in Asia and market forecasts are optimistic about the prospects in China and India (Nieburg, 2013, para 9). According to the CNN Freedom Project, the chocolate industry rakes in $83 billion a year, surpassing the Gross Domestic Product of over a hundred nations (“Who consumes the most chocolate,” 2012, para 3).

Chocolate was previously considered a “delectable symbol of luxury, wealth, and power” (Klein) in the 1500s. Using modern technology, it is now easily produced. While

Even though the public has seemingly accepted this view, the scientific research community is still in disagreement. The American Heart Association, today, takes the same stance it took in the 1960s with a recent quote from their website stating: Eating foods that contain saturated fats raises the level of cholesterol in your blood. High levels of blood cholesterol increase your risk of heart disease and stroke. Be aware, too, that many foods high in saturated fats are also high in cholesterol – which raises your blood cholesterol even higher. Even though this is the current opinion of the American Heart Association, many research experiments have challenged it.

The premium chocolate market has been growing at 20% annually, showing that buyers are willing to pay more for a better tasting and better quality chocolate. The declining growth of the overall chocolate market and rapid growth of the premium chocolate market is positive for current producers of premium chocolates in that the decline

Chocolate milk is detrimental because children could get diabetes from it. Los Angeles School District states that “Thirty percent of kids obese on track to diabetes from chocolate milk.” This proves that Chocolate milk should not be allowed to be served in schools because of how bad it is to you. This shows you that kids can get diabetes from chocolate milk

Moreover, consumers and employees are also demanding chocolate companies to follow good corporate social responsibility practices in addressing the environmental concerns in terms of how to design its packaging, procurement and operational decisions. Human rights concerns are also high in terms of consumer expectations of chocolate companies with respect of forced child labour in West Africa. All of these driving forces - societal concerns, attitudes and change in lifestyles, are strong enough to shape up the competition and impose the constraint on chocolate industry profitability and competitive survival.

Threat of Substitutes * Threats of substitutes are quite low because although there are other substitutes such as crisps and sweets, there is not really an exact substitute, for example in forms of transport such as trains could have a substitute such as a bus, it does exactly the same think, just in a different way, however in my opinion there isn’t such thing in relation to chocolate.

Cholesterol can lead up to coronary heart disease. This is where deposits of lipids cause plaque build-up restricting the blood flow to the heart which

We all encounter chocolate in our daily life, and whether we want to admit it or not, chocolate has been a major part of history, and it is still seen today.

There has always been a tremendous feud between two very popular flavors, Chocolate and Vanilla. I surveyed twenty-two students and Theodore Roosevelt high school and found that it was evenly split between the two flavors for which was their favorite flavor. The problem I wanted to solve was the fact that people who enjoy vanilla live healthier lives. In my survey I included two more questions. One pertained to the amount of hours spent exercising a week. The second asked about their eating habits, which was how many meals a day they would eat. From my survey I found Vanilla to have a pretty healthy lifestyle attached to it.

Around 2,000 years ago, the first chocolate beverage is considered to have been created by the Aztecs, and a cocoa beverage was an important part of Aztec culture by 1400 AD. After being introduced from Mexico in the New World, the beverage became famous in Europe and has undergone multiple changes since then. (Michael, 2017) The Production of Chocolate Many foods contain chocolate such

Cocoa (raw chocolate), in actuality, is a fickle tree. These trees require constant warmth and rainfall to

Chocolate became “a respected scholarly subject” only in recent decades suffering from “puritanical prohibitions” of discussing food or writing about it that were recognized standards of behavior in the Western world. The reviewed book The True History of Chocolate is a valuable addition to what the public knows or, rather, does not know about chocolate, with an interesting historical background that makes an entertaining and useful reading and extends one’s knowledge of things we use daily, sometimes without realizing their long history of evolution and multiple meanings.

Hypertension or chronic pressure plays devastation all in all body and can prompt cardiovascular ailment, stroke, and dementia. The magnesium and the flavanols in dark chocolate are the ones to enhance vascular capacity and enable lower blood pressure.

The above data shows that majority or 81% of the respondents are willing to spend Php50-100 per box for chocolate since it is more affordable unlike other chocolate truffle brand while the remaining 19% of the respondents said that they are not willing to spend such since it is not practical and they would rather wait for a gift to be received.