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🍫 Happy World Chocolate Day!

Swiss chocolate is famous around the world, but there is much more to its story than delicious pralines and chocolate bars.

🇨🇭 Switzerland remains the world's biggest chocolate consumer per person, with an average of 10.3 kg eaten per person in 2025.

🥛 Milk chocolate was invented in Switzerland in 1875, when Daniel Peter successfully combined chocolate with condensed milk, changing the history of chocolate.

🌍 Swiss chocolate is also one of the country's best-known exports. In 2025, 71% of all Swiss chocolate was sold abroad, with Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and the United States among its biggest export markets.

🌱 Behind every chocolate bar is cocoa. In 2022, 82% of cocoa bean equivalents imported into Switzerland came from certified sustainable sources. Switzerland is also working towards more traceable supply chains, better forest protection, improved farmers' incomes and greater use of agroforestry by 2030.

✨ And one final fun fact: according to the traditional story, Rudolf Lindt accidentally left a chocolate mixing machine running over a weekend. The result became known as conching, the process that gives chocolate its smooth, melt-in-the-mouth texture.

Which of these facts did you already know? 🍫