Chocoholics International

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French women might not get fat, but it isn’t because they don’t eat chocolate.

Per person, the French eat just about as much as chocolate as Americans do, according to data from Euromonitor.

The global chocolate-eating champs are the Swiss, who ate 9 kilos per capita last year, more than twice as much as Americans with their 4.3 kilos, according to Euromonitor. The world’s other big chocoholics are the Germans (7.9 kilos), Austrians (7.8 kilos) and the Irish and British (each at 7.5 kilos).


While Western Europeans on average eat about two-thirds of a pound more chocolate per year than Americans do, Americans are the hands-down champs in the consumption of salty snacks, from potato chips and tortilla chips to nuts and other “savory” snacks, said Jared Koerten, senior food analyst at Euromonitor.

Americans on average eat nearly 11 kilos of those per person a year, or 24 ¼ pounds, compared with the Western European average of 4 kilos, he said. Moreover, the U.S. market for salty snacks, both in overall sales and per-capita consumption, is growing faster than that for sweet snacks. ......................(more)

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-are-far-from-the-worlds-biggest-chocolate-eaters-2015-07-21?dist=beforebell