chocolate

Summary

chocolate ranks in the top 0.46% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,376 views/month, #360 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• chocolate is made of chocolate liquor^[2].
• chocolate is made of sugar^[3].
• chocolate is made of cocoa butter^[4].
• chocolate is made of cocoa bean^[5].
• chocolate is made of cocoa^[6].
• chocolate is made of vegetable oil^[7].
• chocolate is a type of stimulant foodstuff^[8].
• chocolate is a type of food ingredient^[9].
• chocolate is a type of condiment^[10].
• chocolate is a type of functional food^[11].
• chocolate is a type of confection^[12].
• chocolate is a type of candy^[13].
• chocolate's Commons category is recorded as Chocolate^[14].
• chocolate's color is recorded as brown^[15].
• chocolate's Unicode character is recorded as 🍫^[16].
• chocolate's country of origin is recorded as Mesoamerica^[17].
• 1750 BC marks the founding of chocolate^[18].
• chocolate's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chocolate^[19].
• chocolate's Commons gallery is recorded as Chocolate^[20].
• chocolate's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[21].
• chocolate's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary^[22].
• chocolate's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[23].
• chocolate's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[24].
• chocolate's natural product of taxon is recorded as cacao^[25].
• chocolate's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C68655^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include stimulant foodstuff^[8], food ingredient^[9], condiment^[10], functional food^[11], confection^[12], and candy^[13].

Origins

1750 BC marks the founding of chocolate^[18].

Influence

Things named for chocolate include Chocobi^[27], a snack^[28], founded in 2006^[29]; Love, Election and Chocolate^[30], a video game^[31]; and xocolatlite^[32], a mineral species^[33].

Why It Matters

chocolate ranks in the top 0.46% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,376 views/month, #360 of 77,819).^[1] chocolate has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] chocolate is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for chocolate include Chocobi^[27], a snack^[28], founded in 2006^[29]; Love, Election and Chocolate^[30], a video game^[31]; and xocolatlite^[32], a mineral species^[33].