CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Theobroma Cacao, Aphrodisiac, Human Body Temperature

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: David Noble Harpp, Ariel Fenster, Joseph A Schwarcz

Document Summary

Study by the confectionery association of canada: sex or chocolate: 1995 in canada, 30% of men and 38% of women voted chocolate, quebec, 74% preferred chocolate, nova scotia, 20% of the people preferred chocolate. More than 500 different chemicals in chocolate. Melting point of chocolate is 36 c (1 c below the human body temperature: chocolate in mouth melt. Swedish botanist called cocoa, or the fruit of the cocoa tree: theobroma cacao (theo means god in greek, and theobroma, mean the food of the gods) Food of the gods indeed because the aztec (today mexico) used cocoa or cocoa drinks to satisfy the gods (cocoa as a liquid). They would offer it in gold goblets that could only be used once. Cocoa is very difficult to dissolve difficult to make drinks based on cocoa. The aztec term for chocolate or cocoa is xocoatl (means bitter)