Markets: Chocolate in Italy

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According to a research conducted by Italian marketing research company AcNielsen, total chocolate consumption in Italy in 2002 rose by 14.8 pct year-on-year. Total chocolate sales in 2003 increased by 5.7 pct year-on-year . Milk chocolate consumption in 2002 grew 11.1 pct year-on-year, while milk chocolate sales in 2003 were up 0.8 pct year-on-year. Bitter chocolate consumption in Italy over the last five years almost doubled

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. Bitter chocolate is very healthful, as it is made of quality cocoa, does not contain milk and does not increase cholesterol. Despite the spread of chocolate culture, the opening of specialised stores and the publishing of films and books dedicated to chocolate, the per capita consumption in Italy remained the lowest throughout Europe. The main reason for the low consumption is that Italians usually eat chocolate with the sense that they are doing something wrong. Besides warm weather in the summer makes the preservation of chocolate very difficult. According to a survey conducted by Italian research institute Eta Meta Research among chefs, nutritionists and psychologists, 29 pct of the chefs prefer bitter to milk chocolate. Women, who account for 45 pct of nutritionists, like milk chocolate, while men, accounting for 58 pct of psychologists, prefer also black to milk chocolate. The chocolate contains theobromine, which has a vasodilative effect, and feniletilamine, a hormone produced by the human body when being in love.

Source: www.ansa.it – December, 2004