Chocolate (color) facts for kids
The color chocolate is a rich, dark shade of brown. It looks a lot like the delicious treat we all know and love: chocolate! When you think of chocolate, you probably picture the color of a classic milk chocolate bar.
The word "chocolate" was first used to describe a color in the English language way back in 1737.
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What is the Color Chocolate?
The color we call "chocolate" is usually the deep brown shade of milk chocolate. This is the most common type of chocolate people eat. It's a warm, inviting color that reminds many people of comfort and sweetness.
Where Does the Color Come From?
Chocolate itself comes from cocoa beans. These beans grow inside large pods on cacao trees. After the beans are harvested, they go through a special process. They are fermented, dried, roasted, and ground up. This process turns them into the chocolate we know. The color of the final product depends on how it's made.
Chocolate vs. Cocoa Brown
You might also hear about a color called "cocoa brown." This color is a bit different from the deep chocolate brown. The "web color" named "chocolate" is actually closer to the color of an unripe cocoa bean pod. It's not the color of the processed chocolate bar at all!
The color "cocoa brown" was first recorded in the English language in 1925. Sometimes, people might even call this lighter shade "light chocolate."
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Chocolate is created from the cocoa bean. A cacao tree with cocoa bean fruit pods (which are filled with cocoa beans inside of them) in various stages of ripening
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A chocolate Labrador
