Just for fun here are some interesting research related facts on Easter chocolate!<\/p>\n
This infographic from Statista<\/a>\u00a0has some basic facts on who celebrates Easter and what they do. 84% gave Easter eggs as gifts in 2018<\/p>\n in another survey<\/a>\u00a0they found that 31% of those who responded bought specific brands but 30% were annoyed at how far in advance Easter eggs were sold!<\/p>\n How much do we spend on chocolate?<\/p>\n Try\u00a0ONS in an interesting survey of children<\/a>\u00a0(aged 7-15) spending habits On average, children aged between 7 and 15 years spent \u00a312.40 a week. The data also show that almost half (48%) of all children spent money on confectionery, which includes chocolate, in a two-week period. However this was not the top category more was spent on soft drinks, toys and clothes. If you go to the website you can find out more! How big is the market for chocolate worldwide? Who are the biggest manufacturers?<\/p>\n To find out the largest manufacturers and the extent of the market get some free data from the\u00a0International Cocoa Organisation<\/a>. Free access to monthly pricing and\u00a0reviews of the market<\/a>\u00a0for cocoa<\/p>\n The FAO produced this infographic<\/a>\u00a0in 2015 showing the largest exporters of cocoa products.\u00a0 For more up to date data on exports of products see the\u00a0FAOStat database<\/a><\/p>\n What are the health benefits?<\/p>\n Here are some positive reports! Just for fun here are some interesting research related facts on Easter chocolate! This infographic from Statista\u00a0has some basic facts on who celebrates Easter and what they do. 84% gave Easter eggs as gifts in 2018 in another survey\u00a0they found that 31% of those who responded bought specific brands but 30% were annoyed at how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,11],"tags":[544,543,335,235],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-marketing","tag-brand-share","tag-chocolate","tag-commodities","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn their average household spending surveys (table A11) they give\u00a0some data on expenditure by adults.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>In 2017\/18 most was spent by those aged 30-49 with an average of 2.4 pounds per week on chocolate.<\/p>\n
\nChocolate does improve a bad mood according to\u00a0Macht & Mueller (2007)<\/a>\u00a0. However the effects only last for 3 minutes!
\nDoes it improve cognitive function?- take a look at this systematic review of research on mode and\u00a0brain function from 2013<\/a>\u00a0and search Pubmed for other medical surveys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"