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chocolate

Nutritionally dense or sweet food product from the seed of Theobroma cacao - cocoa bean

EntityQ195

Subclass of: stimulant foodstuff
, food ingredient
, condiment
+3 more
Founded: 1750 BCE

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Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans. It can be a liquid, solid, or paste. It is eaten on its own and used to flavor other foods.

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118 statements · 19% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Made from material: chocolate liquor
sugar
cocoa butter
cocoa bean
cocoa
vegetable oil
Country of origin: Mesoamerica
Wikimedia outline: outline of chocolate
Has active ingredient: caffeine
theobromine
Different from: Čokolada criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: čokolada
Chocolate criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: chocolate
Schoko applies to name of subject: Schoko · criterion used: short name, acronym, initialism, or abbreviation not unique
Natural product of taxon: Theobroma cacao
Water footprint: 17,196 cubic metre per ton
2
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1.Stated in The green, blue and grey water footprint of crops and derived crop products
2.Stated in The green, blue and grey water footprint of crops and derived crop products
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Unicode character: 🍫
Color: brown
Studied by: theobromatology

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19%

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