Chocoholics, today is the day you can indulge in your favourite cocoa treat and celebrate the existence of chocolate in all its sweet glory.

Today (7 July) is World Chocolate Day – a day where everything awesome about chocolate is celebrated across the globe. The most common types of chocolate is baking chocolate, white, milk and dark chocolate. Almost everyone has a favourite chocolate bar, dessert or confectionary that they enjoy.

Here are seven interesting facts of chocolate that you might not be aware of:

1. Chocolate comes from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. The first documented use of cocoa is from 1100 BC.
2. Adrian Paul Blake of Bournemouth, UK, holds the record for “the fastest time to eat a Chocolate Orange.” He achieved this in 1 minute and 16 seconds on 19 June 2014. A Chocolate Orange is an orange-sized chocolate with orange extract inside.
3. Bob Brown of the United States holds the record for the largest collection of chocolate bars. He has 770 unique chocolate bars in his collection.
4. Nearly 70% of the world’s cocoa supply comes from Africa.
5. Daniel Peter, invented milk chocolate in Switzerland in 1875 by adding condensed milk to his recipe.
6. In 2017, research stated that the Cadbury Lunch Bar, was the most sold chocolate in South Africa.
7. The largest chocolate bar in the world weighed approximately 5800 kilograms.