Guide to Swiss Chocolate

When people think Swiss chocolate, they think a mark of excellence and high quality. Indeed, the chocolate of Switzerland as well as its famous timepieces have earned that exact international repertoire and have become one of the worlds leading chocolate manufacturers to date. Switzerland’s history of chocolate dates all the way back to the 17th Century when it was noting but a small business and now, some of the biggest companies hold origin in Switzerland.

Some say that the reason behind the world renowned high standard chocolate that the Swiss produce is because the Swiss only select the best ingredients for their products. Funnily enough, most of their ingredients aren’t from Switzerland itself but rather imported. The only ingredient that the Swiss proudly call their own would be one of the base ingredients in chocolate; the milk. Something leads me to believe that Swiss cow’s are one of the most healthiest in the world with their organic diets of fresh grass that reside on the slopes of the Swiss Mountains.

Its also said that though the Swiss didn’t invent the chocolate bar, or be one of the few to first discover how to make it, they were the first ones to invent milk chocolate, white chocolate and chocolate with fillings in it.

There are many kinds of Swiss chocolate out there to suit personal taste and preference of everyone. One well known kind of Swiss chocolate would be the Swiss Truffle. These heavenly truffles are made with a combination of melted chocolate, boiling cream and butter. Because their shelf life is really short, you have to consume it within a few days which means whenever you see a Swiss truffle in Switzerland, it’s as fresh as it can get.

With all that said so far, is it surprising if I told you that the Swiss people really love chocolate? Switzerland has the highest chocolate consumption rate in the world and most Swiss chocolate is consumed by none other than them.

The Swiss even provide their fellow army men some chocolates when it comes to having them go on ration. Doesn’t that make you want to be a Swiss all the more? And if that isn’t proof enough of how Swiss and chocolate practically go hand in hand in the same sentence, the Swiss recently claimed the title of making the world’s longest chocolate bar measured at 221 meters!