• Some chemicals act as an aphrodisiac. Chocolate consumption causes your brain to release the pleasure chemical dopamine, which could put you in the mood for love.
• Phenylethylamine (PEA) in chocolate is like a ‘love drug’! It’s the same chemical that your brain uses to create feelings similar to when you feel like you’re falling in love.
• Phenylethylamine has been shown to release serotonin and endorphins, two chemicals known to make us feel happy.
• Chocolate is the only plant—other than cannabis—known to contain cannabinoids? (Yep, eat enough of it and… well…no fault, no blame for any exotic outcomes!)
• High levels of magnesium are also present in chocolate to help boost moods and release endorphins in the body, thereby reducing anxiety.

• Eating chocolate is mildly stimulating because of the presence of theobromine, an alkaloid that is closely related to caffeine.
• Chocolate is a natural antidepressant. It contains tryptophan which helps you create serotonin, your body’s own antidepressant.

• Chocolate contains more antioxidant than red wine (the 70% cocoa solids variety).
• Flavonoids and antioxidants in chocolate can help improve cardiovascular health and reduce blood pressure.
• In its purest form, cocoa is a natural food with a high food value, containing as much as 20 percent protein, 40 percent carbohydrate, and 40 percent fat.
• Chocolate is the only edible substance to melt around 93°F., just below our body temperature. That’s why it melts so easily on your tongue.
• Technically, white chocolate isn’t chocolate, but you probably already knew that.
• The shelf life for most chocolate is one year. Do not let any get past their due date!
• And it might be a vegetable! Chocolate comes from the cacao bean, which grows on the cacao tree, an evergreen from the same family that includes okra and cotton. So, wouldn’t that make the cacao bean a vegetable?