Friday is National Chocolate Day
(WISH) – Friday is National Chocolate Day, which means it’s a day to celebrate all things chocolate.
Here are some facts about chocolate:
- There are around 1.5 million cocoa farms in West Africa
- The farms in West Africa produce 70 percent of the world’s cocoa
- It takes 400 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate
- It takes four to five years for a cocoa tree to produce its first beans