Romanians’ chocolate consumption is still modest compared to Finns. The value of the world’s chocolate economy is approximately 110 billion annually.
Chocolate is a billion dollar business all over the world. In total, it is worth about 110 billion annually.
Romanians eat an average of 2.2 kilos a year, while the Swiss eat 10 kilos a year. Finns eat 25–35 million kilos of chocolate a year, he said WWF Finland next year. That’s about 4-6 kilos of chocolate per person per year.
Chocolate master Daniel Stallaert took Belgian chocolate knowledge to Romania, where chocolate consumption is still modest.
Stallaert describes to Romanian television (Televiziunea Romana) the country’s long tradition in the production of chocolate sweets. Stallaert went through chocolate making with the residents of Cluj Napoca.
– Everything starts with the perfect selection of cocoa beans, said Staellaert.
The chocolate master said that he got to know Britain’s Princess Diana through a friend in London. He said that he used to make chocolate works of art weighing a kilo for Diana once a month.
People all over the world consume sweets made from three million cocoa beans every year, which means billions of chocolate bars, pralines, chocolate bars or chocolate cakes.
Approximately five million tons of cocoa are produced annually. Half of it ends up in Europe and a large part in North America.
Roughly speaking, cocoa is cultivated in the southern and consumed in the northern hemisphere.
The price of cocoa has been high around the world at the beginning of the year, Reuters reported this month.
Clarified 20.55: Chocolate consumption per person in Finland.