History of Chocolate Day: Importance of Chocolate in Valentines Week

Last updated:February 09, 2025, 13:03 IST

Chocolate Day 2025: Everyone likes eating chocolate and it also works to dissolve sweetness in relationships. While chocolate increases love, it is also beneficial for health. Chocolate has its own importance.

Chocolate Day started from America in 1990 (Image-Canva)

Chocolate day history: Valentines Week has started. While this week started on Rose Day on 7 February, on February 14, it will end on Valentines Day. Today is 9 February and Chocolate Day is celebrated on this day. This is the perfect day to sweeten his mouth by giving chocolate to your love. This always keeps the sweetness in their relationship.

Chocolate Day started from America
Valentines Week is full of romance but chocolate was added in this week in 1990. It is believed that Chocolate Day was declared on the third day of Valentines Week in America. This decision was taken to increase chocolate sales. This led to a boom in chocolate shopping and began to be prepared for customers with different shape chocolates.

Chocolate was given in Victoria era
Some people believe that St. Valentines of Rome were climbed as chocolate offers. It is said that the start of chocolate started from Spain in 1520. It was then used as a medicine in Europe. But at the same time some history connects Chocolate Day to the Victoria era of England. He believed that at this time people used to distribute chocolate to each other with love. This method of expressing love was considered the best. After this, British businessman Richard Candberry started making solid chocolate and packed the chocolate with a picture of cupid in the box of heart shape in 1861. It was specially prepared for Valentines Day.

Chocolate is prepared in many sizes and flavors (image-canva)

Demand increased before second world war
The chocolate box for February 14 became popular before the Second World War. Actually its specialty was not its romantic feel packaging but less sugar. Earlier, the chocolate that was made, sugar used to be very much in it. When it was prepared from less sweet, this chocolate box became the first choice of every love person. A heart -shaped chocolate box made in the Victoria era is still sold a lot.

Chocolate increases romance!
Many people like to eat chocolate only instead of sweets, but chocolate has a very deep relationship with romance. Actually, chocolate contains a chemical called PEA which awakens the feelings of love in the brain and eating chocolate releases hormones called dopamine and serotonin which make the feel good factor feel. This makes the person happy and feels romantic by looking at his partner.