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Thursday, January 8, 1998 Published at 18:51 GMT
Background
Facts about UK chocolate consumption
![image: [ Britons are worldbeaters when it comes to eating chocolate ]](/olmedia/images/_45885_chocolate_300.jpg)
Britons are worldbeaters when it comes to eating chocolate
- The UK population consumes over 500,000 tonnes of chocolate every year.
- Enough Cadbury's Dairy Milk is sold each year to cover 430 football pitches.
- Frys introduced the very first chocolate Easter eggs in 1873.
![[ image: We munch through creme eggs weighing the same as 1,500 elephants]](/olmedia/images/_45885_elephant.jpg) | | We munch through creme eggs weighing the same as 1,500 elephants |
- One year's output of Cadbury's Creme Eggs weighs more than 1,500 African elephants.
- The botanical name for the cacao tree (from which chocolate derives) means the "food of the gods".
- Cadbury's uses over 50,000 tonnes of cocoa beans every year to make chocolate - enough to fill the Royal Albert Hall four times over.
![[ image: Beans would fill the Royal Albert Hall four times]](/olmedia/images/_45885_albert_hall.jpg) | | Beans would fill the Royal Albert Hall four times |
- Anyone who took the advice of the advertising slogan `A Mars a Day Helps You Work Rest And Play', which started in 1959, would have eaten nearly six tonnes of Mars bars by now.
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